I have been sorting. I have been chucking. It’s been the recurring theme over the last eighteen months. I cleared … More
Tag: The Poetry Trust
Adélia Prado’s tone
She started as a name. There I was, following my nose, minding my own business, trying to ignore all instincts … More
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog Posts
Below is a collection of my blog posts for the 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. I will update it as I … More
Coming home to Aldeburgh
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost … More
Lifesaving Poems: Piotr Sommer’s ‘Morning on Earth’
Morning on Earth Morning on earth, light snow, and just when it was so warm, practically spring. But the thermometer … More
Lifesaving Poems: Esther Morgan’s ‘Avocados’
I heard Michael Symmons Roberts give a magisterial reading from his book Drysalter recently. It was exemplary on so many levels, not … More
Lifesaving Poems: CK Williams’s ‘Kin’
In the spring of 1999 I got the best education in poetry I have ever had. I was in Suffolk, … More
Lifesaving Poems: Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’
The first thing I do when a new copy of The North, Rialto or Smiths Knoll lands on the doormat … More