A Thing for Poetry

The recent brouhaha over Rebecca Watts' essay for PN Review, 'The Cult of the Noble Amateur'  , re-drew the battle-lines betwee...

Literary journalism loves lists, and lists are (usefully for literary journalism) always controversial. Robert McCrum's 100 best non-fi...

Somewhat contrary to expectations, the world seems to have survived 2017, and continues to produce plenty of new poetry for us to enjoy. It ...

Today is the UK's Remembrance Sunday. Seeing the preparations for this commemoration in the last few days, during the country's four...

The results for the Resurgence Poetry Prize 2017 are out and I am pleased to see that one of my poems, 'Fractures' , has been comm...

People find some curious ways to promote poetry. One strategy I've often noticed ( and already complained about when journalists do it )...

Okay, this is a frivolous post, but there's nothing I like better than a pop song that gives a nod to the world of poetry. True, there&#...

As some readers of this blog may already be aware that I have started running a poetry book group in cooperation with my local independent b...

Hull is currently UK city of culture for 2017, so you would think its most famous literary resident, the poet Philip Larkin, would be gettin...

As the title of this blog suggests, when I write here, I write about poetry. However, my own reading fluctuates between phases of only wanti...