This grasshopper, I mean
Just in from gardening, tackling the massively overgrown rockery at [...]
A better load
A friend emailed me saying she was feeling a bit [...]
Where can we live but days?
What a beautiful day. Ash Wednesday came and woke me [...]
The drunkenness of things being various
February was an eventful month, in the world and for [...]
As the stars are there
I saw the film Nebraska last week. It was superb, [...]
The One Red Leaf
Here is one of my favourite poems by Jane Hirshfield [...]
Time and light are kinds of love
In his poem ‘The Word’, Tony Hoagland addresses the reader with a [...]
The whole pile is slipping
This morning I woke very early and drafted some poems [...]
Like a shadow or a friend
Here's a poem about kindness by Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab [...]
A guest, worthy to be here
Here’s one of my favourite poems of all time: Love [...]
