Guest posts and summer reading

As I did last year, I will be taking a break from uploading new posts to this blog over August. … More

Guest Post: How I put The Art of Falling together, by Kim Moore

How I put The Art of Falling together In May 2012 my first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves … More

On Literary Envy “Comparison is the thief of joy” –Teddy Roosevelt You wake up one morning. You check in … More

This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More

after and with apologies to Mark Halliday The missing blog post has gone AWOL. Never sure of its place in … More

My deep thanks to Maria Taylor, who has written the most lovely appreciation of Lifesaving Poems. Thank you Maria for capturing its … More

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward … More

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. Robert … More

Dear Peter Cover-to-cover and back-to-back twice, as I do, once before sleeping, then between zeds on a train woken to Tickets, … More

The Sofas, Fogs, and Cinemas I have lived it, and lived it, My nervous, luxury civilisation, My sugar-loving nerves have … More

This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by writers I admire. Having enjoyed speaking and reading … More

I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not … More

I have been wondering recently if the world of the poem (the one that is currently not-here, just out of … More

I have just come back from a thing. I am tired. A good afternoon of good conversation about large, important … More

I am delighted to have a new poem, To Spring, published today at Sarah James’s blog, in With You In … More

I am delighted to have a new poem, ‘Blue Morning’ (after Terry Frost), included in Four Ways of Looking at … More

The poem that came into my mind on waking up this morning and hearing the General Election result is Mark … More

For those of you who have been enjoying my series of adventures with ‘the book’, here is a free eBook … More