Tracey Herd’s Not in This World and the T.S. Eliot Prize

November 7, 2015

The Poetry Book Society has posted the next of my T. S. Eliot Prize reviews on the Poetry Bookshop online. …

Dream Attack: Fiona Moore’s Night Letter

November 1, 2015

I was once awoken in the dead of night by the kitchen knives. Not by the cutlery but the other …

October 29, 2015

Mark Doty‘s latest, Deep Lane, is truly exceptional. Poetry can, of course, be any number of things but some of …

June 7, 2015

Even today, an assault on the defensive ditches surrounding Maiden Castle would be challenging, their presence serving as a reminder of our …

April 16, 2015

Seeing a swan holed below the waterline by a crossbow bolt on my stretch of river, I ran for the phone. …