#NaBloPoMo 13 – His notebook highlights strewn

Dean Paul Granny § ‘What students in classrooms say is an exceptionally precious learning resource. Every time a teacher receives … More

Lifesaving Poems: Sharon Olds’s ‘Looking at Them Asleep’

Continuing in this mini-series of poems I shared in my reading at the Greenbelt festival last weekend, here is Looking … More

Don’t Think About A White Horse Coming closer, he turns out to be you – or nearly. Once you … More

The Collection The Matter of This World: New and Selected Poems (Slow Dancer, 1987) I found The Matter of … More

During the Christmas period I am reposting some old posts from my archive. Wishing all my readers a very happy … More

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost … More

I have not read a book in six months -Raymond Carver, ‘Drinking While Driving’ I can still remember the shock … More

When Ezra Pound claimed that ‘Poetry is news that stays news’ it is likely he was thinking of Katy Evans-Bush’s Baroque … More

I want to live – Sharon Olds The most intense reading group I ever belonged to wasn’t really a reading … More

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

Seven years ago today, the date in the photograph above was the day I knew had cancer. By this … More

I found this poem in a collection of poems called The Matter of This World in a second hand … More

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