The Year of Living Deeply 3: Mark Strand’s Weather of Words

When I first read and began thinking about The Year of Living Deeply one of my instant reactions concerned the impact … More

Letter to a younger poet

Listening to the wonderful array of speakers at the Foyle Young Poets symposium on Monday, I tried to think back … More

I feel a great sense of weariness as I look at the current political scene. Domestically, in the UK, we … More

‘I’ve been reading Wallace Stevens.’ ‘So?’ ‘I thought you’d be pleased.’ ‘I don’t get it.’ ‘Wallace Stevens!’ ‘I know who … More

Sometimes poems aren’t literal representations of anything. Sometimes a poem just exists as something else in the universe that you … More