Ictus

The following poem appears in Human Form, where considerations of space meant it was published without what seems to me this essential footn...

                                                                     "I will feel lost,                                           ...

Squandermania and other foibles: All poetic "content" is arbitrary : As Marjorie Perloff has repeatedly noted, much of contemporar...

   Highdown Hill is a National Trust area in West Sussex near to the village of Angmering. The earthworks at the top is a place of ritual...

                                                         "Thought does not always take a theoretical form. Verlaine's metrical ...

    The second-hand bookseller from whom I purchased my copy of Chris McCully’s Selected Poems had affixed a sticker to the cover saying it...

  Is it just me or has The Guardian Weekend Edition become more and more an unchallenging reiteration of middle-class assumptions and idées...

 Having made a visit to West Norwood Cemetery about two weeks ago in glorious sunshine, I followed the  Curious Art trail, of which Chris ...

As an afterword to my slightly cynical take on becoming a Twitterer the other week, there was an interesting piece in The Independent a few...