The Year of Living Deeply 12: Reading the books I already have

So in an effort to live deeply and not widely, amongst other things I have been looking at the shelves … More

The Year of Living Deepy 2: Re-reading Tomas Tranströmer

Below Zero We are at a party that doesn’t love us. At last the party lets its mask drop and … More

S … More

The Curtain Falls Suddenly a life is over – Ends with such serious charades The Dean makes lame quips … More

Listening to the wonderful array of speakers at the Foyle Young Poets symposium on Monday, I tried to think back … More

Poem Without Sleep All the things that could happen to the baby came to me last night as I … More

It is odd to speak of missing someone you never met, but this is how I feel about the American … More

My first reader was a man called Fergus. A friend of a flatmate at university, I never got to … More

Reading Frank O’Hara in the Hospital 1 The IV drips its slow news. So long, lean and turbulent morning! … More

In a Church No, no time for this the outside clamours to be heard, the books, you see, … More

Here is a story about a recent failure of mine. It all started with an idea, which I knew, just … More

‘What else are you not telling me?’ says the book. ‘Nothing,’ I say. The book rolls its eyes, gives a … More

Towards the end of my treatment for cancer in 2006 I had one of the most profound conversations of … More

I went home the other day. I mean home-home, where I was born, and where my parents still live. … More

Diving into the Wreck First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of … More

from A New Guide 7 Look at this arch. It is part of a building more than seven hundred years old. … More

from Cats and a Cock We walk the streets of the dark city, placards at back light in our heads, … More

Five Minutes Of Work 4.23.2009 Attending the PMDS workshop today a 46-page page performance document to be discussed in … More