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”
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Plague Year Season 4 Review
2023 eh? That was the year that was. I’m not going to share my thoughts or reflections on it because they’re all too heavily fogged up by the lens of the present moment and as I write this, huddled up with a hotwater bottle, watching the rain fall for the 6th day in a row,Continue reading “Plague Year Season 4 Review”
Plague Year Season Two Review
Dear reader, I cannot lie to you. This last two years have been trying. At this point in 2020 I couldn’t face looking back at the year. I suppose that I am writing this now proves the point I make so often about adjusting to chronic illness: it’s continually surprising the amount of daily painContinue reading “Plague Year Season Two Review”
The Rabbits Are Us: thoughts on 2016
IV our touching hearts slenderly comprehend (clinging as fingers,loving one another gradually into hands)and bend into the huge disaster of the year: like this most early single star which tugs weakly at twilight,caught in thickening fear our slightly fingering spirits starve and smother; until autum abruptly wholly hugs our dying silent minds,which handContinue reading “The Rabbits Are Us: thoughts on 2016”
Words, pictures, music.
‘If I puked up some sonnets would you call me a miracle?’ Neko Case, ‘Night Still Comes’ I’m trying to unravel something about how I feel, and what I think, about the relationship between poetry and song. About my relationships with poetry and song. I’ve been thinking about it a lot over the lastContinue reading “Words, pictures, music.”
Shadow Dispatches 