On Selling Poetry

These are my three poetry collections, all published by Seren: Basic Nest Architecture (2017) Much With Body (2021) Emergency Dream (2026) Yesterday I got my sales figures for the first time since 2017 (there’s been an issue that’s being worked on!) and I thought it would be useful and interesting to share those numbers, afterContinue reading “On Selling Poetry”

Second Selves and Natural Hearts

On Grasmere as a centre for poetry This year it will be twenty years since I left London and moved north to start a phd at Lancaster University in collaboration with the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. A large part of my doctoral research was concerned not only with the poetry of the past – howContinue reading “Second Selves and Natural Hearts”