Readers of this blog will know that I make a list at the end of each year showing the most … More
Tag: Susannah Amoore
When poets don’t appear
MorningThe gentleness of secretaries in the morning is somethingto behold. When they are arriving, fluttering through theoffice and settling to … More
Lifesaving Poems: Susannah Amoore’s ‘An Upstairs Kitchen’
An Upstairs KitchenIt is strange that I used to thinkthe summers were best in this kitchenhigh in the back of … More
When poets disappear
Some of my favourite poetry books of all time are anthologies. Not the headline selections everybody has (and has to … More
Lifesaving Poems
I was struck by a remark of Seamus Heaney in an interview he gave some years ago now. He was … More
