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”

On books in the landscape

Some time in the mid twenty-teens, when twitter was still twitter, and still a place to make connections and jokes, my partner Will stepped out of the bookshop where he had been working part-time for years, carried a book across the road, and positioned it on a gate. For a couple of years he hadContinue reading “On books in the landscape”