It was Clive Bennett who got me traveling down this particular track. He's a real birder and maintains a wonderful…
Lament In December December’s come and all is dead; Weep, woods, for summer far has sped And leaves rot in…
"I have too many books but I only have my shelf to blame." The pun came via Twitter. As does…
There's the fog of war and there's the poetry of fog. A recent heavy mist in my patch of the…
What use is poetry? .... We have poetry So we do not die of history. - Meena Alexander I like poems…
The day after the Brexit referendum our dear leader - then candidate for the presidency - was on his way…
I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion. Since 1916, the fear of gas…
If you've ever been young and full of dreams .... If you ever headed to the big city with your…
It seemed to them that they were to go on living like that, and writing like that, for ever and…
“I hate poetry and all its fucking ambitious son-of-a-bitches who call me a showman because I act myself”. Gregory Corso letter…