This Sunday I will be one of the poets taking part in a sponsored poem-a-thon organised by Poets for Ukraine, a swiftly-assembled group of poets who have come together to raise funds to help refugees from the war in Ukraine. The reading is a partnership between Poets for Ukraine and the UK Society of Authors, […]
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‘Hiroshima’ and Other Poems – Now on My Website
Now that Oxford Poetry XVI.III has sold out, I’ve taken the opportunity to add my poem from the issue, ‘Hiroshima’, to the poetry page of my website, and refresh the selection of my poems there. Here are the links for the individual poems: Hiroshima The Illusionist The Future Proem from Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (translation) […]
The New Yorker Poetry Podcast
Supposing you were sitting in a New York diner, and you couldn’t help overhearing the conversation between two men in the booth behind you. As you tuned into the American and Northern Irish accents, you realised you were eavesdropping on John Ashbery and Paul Muldoon shooting the breeze about poetry. Ashbery read a poem by […]
The Canterbury Tales – Mamas and the Papas Version (Plus reading in London Monday 17 November)
In a parallel universe, the Canterbury Tales were written and performed by the Mamas and the Papas. This video gives us a glimpse of that universe. Beautiful and mad. Courtesy of Lucian James. If you’re in London next Monday 17th November, you might like to pop along to the Troubadour where I’ll be reading a […]
Poem: ‘The Illusionist’, in The Rialto
My poem ‘The Illusionist’ has just been published in Issue 80 of The Rialto, which has been one of my favourite poetry magazines for years. The poem is loosely based on an experience of watching the filming of a TV magic show, one of those rare instances of what might be called poetic déjà vu: […]
