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 …

Mark Doty’s Deep Lane and the T S Eliot Prize, 2015

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. …