Lifesaving Poems: Fleur Adcock’s ‘The Soho Hospital for Women (IV)’

The Soho Hospital for Woman (IV) I am out in the supermarket choosing – this very afternoon, this day … More

Influences: Duncan Kramer

I met the furniture designer Duncan Kramer at summer camp. Not as kids but as what we laughingly called leaders. … More

‘A Lyric Afterwards’ was the poem in which I finally got Tom Paulin. I had been given a tape of him … More

I love watching poets having fun. Think of Don Paterson shooting the breeze with Bill Herbert in the South Bank … More

I can remember exactly where I was when I first read ‘Early Summer’. It was on the balcony of … More

Some time ago I wrote about the importance to me of discovering, through my friend Duncan Kramer, the anthology The … More

Everything is Going to be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplatethe clouds clearing beyond the dormer … More