Normally I put the flyers from the weekend papers straight in the recycling box.   Today a flyer for “The poetry event of the year!” didn’t suffer the same fate. It must have been because it was headed, “... Read more

By chance I came across a copy of of the Autumn 2009 issue of Countryside Voice, the magazine of the Campaign To Protect Rural England.   This contained an interesting article, Nature's Interpreter, on John Clare. with some extracts of his poe... Read more

The Review section of The Times on Saturday carried a poetry special which included: • An interview with Ruth Padel and the ‘worst mistake of her life’ which led to her position as Professor of Poetry at Oxford only lasting nine ... Read more

The front of the Times2 section today reminds us that is 1000 days since Madeleine McCann disappeared and contains The Beacon, a poem written by Simon Armitage. The accompanying article and that of  Erica Wagner (Words to make sense of the wo... Read more

That’s a phrase I haven’t used for longer than I can remember.   The event I attended yesterday was a new venture for me. Bob, the non-poet, went to a short performance poetry session at Thornaby Central Library.   The Journ... Read more