Displacement

This was Saturday, day of the Poetry Book Fair in Exmouth Market.   Why hasn’t something like that happened before?   Never mind, it’s happe...

This pamphlet was published by Smiths Knoll magazine last year.  It arrived free with the magazine for subscribers.   There’s something ver...

Oona and I go to a poetry workshop in Greenwich.   Most weeks, the first hour is spent discussing a poem or poet - could be anyone from th...

In the summer, there was trouble at the Poetry Society.   Now both summer and trouble seem long ago and far away.   But PoSoc’s members have...

I sat on the open deck at the back of the Holyhead-Dublin ferry – it wasn’t crowded, though the day was quite warm and the sea very calm.   ...

That’s a quote from a review by David Orr in the New York Times, 2008, of Modern Life by the American poet Matthea Harvey.   Not exactly t...