Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’ (LentBlog28)

Today is Saturday, and as with other Saturdays this Lent I am reposting a favourite blog post from my archive. … More

Guest blog post: On moving on, by Dean Parkin

I have been sorting. I have been chucking. It’s been the recurring theme over the last eighteen months. I cleared … More

She started as a name. There I was, following my nose, minding my own business, trying to ignore all instincts … More

Below is a collection of my blog posts for the 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. I will update it as I … More

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

Morning on Earth Morning on earth, light snow, and just when it was so warm, practically spring. But the thermometer … More

I heard Michael Symmons Roberts give a magisterial reading from his book Drysalter recently. It was exemplary on so many levels, not … More

In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More

The first thing I do when a new copy of The North, Rialto or Smiths Knoll lands on the doormat … More