Art is an attitude

Here is a quotation from Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception that I have been meditating on for a while now. I have … More

The power of poetry (free download) #NATEconf

Here are the text and ppt presentations of my NATE Conference 2014 keynote speech on The Power of Poetry. PDF … More

A comment Mark Robinson made in the days following Seamus Heaney’s death in August resonated with me. He said he … More

I I first came across e e cummings’s ‘in Just’ in an anthology, Wordscapes, edited by Barry Maybury (OUP, 1971). … More

8.06 p.m. June 10th 1970poemTom Raworth (from Jumpstart, ed. Cliff Yates, Poetry Society, 1999) As I say in my previous blog post, … More

When I began teaching the Year 5 class of children whose work would form the basis of my doctoral study … More

I am a little late in writing these reflections prompted by the tenth anniversary of 9/11. What I want to … More