‘Writing through place’ podcast
I’ve been listening to a National Centre for Writing podcast on ‘Writing through place’, a conversation between two fantastic poets, Rebecca Goss and Heidi Williamson. It’s available here and is really...
View ArticleReview of Sarah Wimbush’s STRIKE
With thanks, as ever, to Hilary Menos and Andy Brodie of The Friday Poem, my review of Sarah Wimbush’s excellent STRIKE, which was nominated for the Forward Best Collection Prize, is here.
View ArticleOctober reading
I read Kathleen Jamie’s first two collections of nature and travel essays – Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2012) – when they appeared and loved them both. But they weren’t so much nature or travel...
View ArticleOn Geraldine Clarkson’s Medlars
It’s been a while since I read Chris Edgoose’s admirable and enticing review for The Friday Poem, here, of Geraldine Clarkson’s second full collection, Medlars, available to buy from its publisher...
View ArticleReview of Victoria Gatehouse’s The Hawthorn Bride
With thanks to the editor, Hilary Menos, for commissioning it, my review of Victoria Gatehouse’s excellent debut full collection, The Hawthorn Bride, is at The Friday Poem today, here. The collection,...
View Article(Other) November reading
Shash Trevett’s debut full collection, The Naming of Names, published by the Poetry Business and available to buy here, follows on from her 2021 pamphlet From a Borrowed Land, with more poems relating...
View ArticlePoem at Atrium – ‘Entertaining’
With thanks to editors Claire Walker and Holly Magill, I’m very pleased to have a poem up at Atrium today, here.
View ArticleBack to Michael Hamburger
It would be remiss of me not to revisit Hamburger before his centenary year ends. I wonder who else has marked it; not even PN Review as far as I can see, a surprising omission given that Carcanet...
View ArticleMy year in haiku
I’ve had a grand total of nine haiku and senryu published this year, which is pitifully few compared to my heyday, but nonetheless represents an increase on last year. I write them so seldom that it’s...
View ArticleDecember reading
What reading I have done this month has principally been on buses, trains and trams. Bus journeys – to and from Doncaster or Sheffield – in particular are ideal for reading poetry collections. Derek...
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