Inside Lifesaving Poems

The central organising principle of Lifesaving Poems is that each poet is represented by a single poem. There are poets you … More

Guest blog post: Hands like these, by Beverly Rycroft

This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by writers I admire. Having enjoyed speaking and reading … More

Lifesaving Poems has arrived Well, it has finally arrived. The anthology which began life as a blog, which began life as … More

I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not … More

And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,That appeared once, still wetAs … More

Cups They know us by our lips. They know the proverb about the space between us. Many slip. They … More

The poem that came into my mind on waking up this morning and hearing the General Election result is Mark … More

Tomorrow I will be taking part at the Wenlock Poetry Festival in an event with Roz Goddard. We will be … More

‘Making Poetry Happen is a fundamental resource for all English teachers for the way if collates both thinking about … More

Though I am reading from it, the book is nowhere to be seen. As well as normal people, some poets … More

I am at a thing. Canals are there. Sunlight on them, the last tourists, a shifting of the seasons. ‘Soon … More

Heaven on Earth Now that it is night, you fetch the wash from outer space, from the frozen … More

because of the words and because of the books because of the woman in the anorak at the swimming baths … More

Days Each one is a gift, no doubt, mysteriously placed in your waking hand or set upon your forehead moments … More

Hamlet The buzz subsides. I have come on stage. Leaning in an open door I try to detect from … More

The Secret Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don’t know the … More

I found two blog posts especially moving in the aftermath of last week’s attacks in Paris, both by the same … More

Be Here First I don’t know my trees but I know my trees. Their angling for what has spurned them; their spitting … More