When my sister is old
I will wait at the door with flowers if she greets me at all it will be brief and cold as the Guildford […]
Invasion
It took three rows of barbed wire coiled round stakes, hammered at angles into sand and shingle. The beach packed and leaking like […]
Olly packs em in at Lewes Poetry
Last night I nearly didn’t get a seat at the Lewes Arms for Oliver’s poetry night. Who were all those people? Where did […]
The key to writing better poetry is …
Saw a tweet about the new Arvon course list for 2012 being up. So couldn’t resist taking a look. I’m going through this […]
The ups and downs of poetry submissions
Last week: issue 48 of The North failed to arrive, and when I asked for my ‘contributor’s copy’ I was told…erm… you’re not […]
T S Eliot prize winner
We saw him read on Sunday evening, alongside the other shortlisted poets. He was great, my money was on either him or Carol […]
January weather
Could it get any worse?