Thursday, 5 October 2023

National Poetry Day: Refuge and Carolyn Forché's 'The Boatman'

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Today is National Poetry Day in the UK, and this year's theme is 'Refuge'. On a global scale, the world is experiencing the hig...
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Tuesday, 21 March 2023

World Poetry Day: 'The Stare's Nest By My Window' by WB Yeats

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  It's World Poetry Day, and tonight I will be going to a Josephine Hart Poetry Hour event at the British Library, about WB Yeats.  By m...
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Saturday, 31 December 2022

Year-end: poems in Bad Lilies, and Best UK Poetry Blogs of 2022

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  2022 has drawn to a close and I don't really have a list of accomplishments to offer, but I do have a couple of highlights in poetry-w...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2022

2022 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation

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  The winner of the second Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation will be announced this Tuesday, 1 November. Awarded every other yea...
Tuesday, 15 February 2022

New(ish) poem in The Crank: Return to the Night City

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Amidst hardly blogging at all last autumn (can you do something amidst not doing something?), I sadly neglected to apprise my more-faithful-...
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Friday, 31 December 2021

Ten years of The Stone and the Star

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  As 2021 stumbles to a close, it might be obvious to anyone who was paying attention (and I don't know if anyone was) that I was not wr...
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Friday, 24 September 2021

Sea Reconnection: the final weekend!

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Sea Reconnection , featuring my poetry and the art of Miles Taverner and Darren Hewitt, is now drawing to a close and this is its final week...
Thursday, 2 September 2021

Sea Reconnection: an art and poetry exhibition in London, September 2021

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  This month at Canary Wharf in London, the Le Sorelle river barge will host the Sea Reconnection exhibition (part of the Totally Thames Fe...