The Top 10 Lifesaving Poems

I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the poems … More

Lifesaving Poems: Mark Strand’s ‘A Morning’

I fell in love with the poetry of Mark Strand via the enthusiasm of Rupert Loydell sometime in the late … More

Night Drive The smells of ordinarinessWere new on the night drive through France;Rain and hay and woods on the airMade … More

I have just come back from the Greenbelt Festival where I was delighted to give a talk about writing poetry … More

Now that we in Britain have started to think of ourselves as the greatest cycling nation since dinosaurs roamed the … More

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

I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More