August. Already. Do you remember how summer holidays seemed in childhood – a long holiday starting late July (for those of us in […]
After a couple of weeks of what’s felt like full-on socialising in our sunny garden, I’m enjoying a quiet day alone catching up, […]
Well hello! I am feeling epic. Not because I’ve suddenly won some dough or got a call from Faber. No! Health update (feel […]
The new edition of Magma, edited by Benedict Newbery and Pauline Sewards, is dedicated to ‘work’, a subject close to my heart. It’s always […]
… Fourth Impression (1965) with a foreword by Leonard Woolf. Hogarth Press! Original dust jacket bearing Vanessa Bell’s design! I found it at […]
Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic came through the post from the Poetry Book Society, swathed in accolades. Looking at the title my first thought […]
I’m just updating the quarterly poetry magazines submissions windows list, but it won’t be going out for a couple of days, so just […]
Blogging and writing have been a bit off my radar lately as I am still struggling with a back problem which makes sitting […]
I’m not sure where the month has gone – somewhere out the door together with the gardening, the yoga and the Spring days […]
I first met Jan Heritage at the house of the late and much missed Jo Grigg. Jo was the coordinator of the Brighton […]