Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog posts page

In 2014 I was invited by the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival to be their guest blogger. I have added the blog … More

Lifesaving poems of summer

As the summer holiday season takes hold, I am posting an old blog post or two from the archive. See … More

I was asked the other day which poetry blogs I read. Over the next few posts I will be sharing … More

As I said recently, I have been moving. Not away, not abroad. But here, within the space that already exists, … More

Now that we might finally be getting one, I found myself wondering recently how many of my Lifesaving Poems choices were about … More

I am at a thing. Not a famous thing, but an important one nevertheless. People are there, people you and … More

Medicine The black hair of my Chinese doctor gleams like combed ink as he leans over his desk, with quick … 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

Thanks to the recommendation of Naomi Jaffa (again) I had the smug pleasure of already knowing the work of Tony … More

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