Gaza Advent – a new series of blog posts starting tomorrow

Starting tomorrow, to mark the season of Advent, a new blog series celebrating the work of poets from Gaza and … More

Lifesaving Lines: You are not alone, by Thomas A. Clark

Dear Thomas A. Clark I won’t lie, until recently I hadn’t heard of you. (We could talk for a long … More

We have been to a thing. Breaking with this blog’s tradition of oblique references to low-level gossip and self-recrimination at … More

In August last year I wrote about Tom Paulin’s poem of hurt and slow healing ‘A Lyric Afterwards’. It wasn’t … More

This morning, as on every morning for the last two weeks, the wood was loud with birdsong. I heard robin, … More

After Joe Biden won the 2020 US presidential election, I posted one of the very few poems to this blog … More

Starting tomorrow, to mark the season of Advent, a new blog series celebrating the work of Palestinian poets. Each day … More

Timorous or bold are the first three words of Seamus Heaney’s famous (to me) ‘Elegy’ for Robert Lowell. They’ve been … More

Photo credit: Andrew Rumsey This, from a person I have met a handful of times, our dogs nosing each other … More

Somewhere right at the beginning of all this, before the internet, when everything was scarce, not least poetry, a word … More

Like the man Hemingway describes going bankrupt gradually and then suddenly, I realised the other day that I can no … More

I pinched myself to be there. God knows how I got invited. I can’t remember. Perhaps I invited myself. Poets … More

It felt like a good idea at the time. A way to pass lockdown, of trying to ignore the grief … More

Thank you to Chrissy Williams for contributing the stunning opening of her poetic response to James Schuyler’s ‘Hymn to Life’, … More

On publishing This year I published a book of poems. It is about grief, love and anger. It seems to … More

Thank you to William Johnson for contributing his insightful reading of James Schuyler’s poem ‘The Crystal Lithium’, the second in … More

Thank you to Ailsa Holland for contributing this first blog post in honour of James Schuyler’s centenary. James Schuyler’s ‘The … More

Open call for guest blog posts celebrating the life and work of James Schuyler This November, we celebrate the centenary … More