Ictus

   Whereas in real terms 2017 was an especially momentous year for me, primarily in moving to a new house in Hertfordshire and experiencin...

Ovid Banished from Rome by JMW Turner     There's been a welcome spate of poetry programmes on the BBC this autumn, with documentari...

                                                                At risk of sounding ungracious or curmudgeonly, I don't get exci...

          Charles Simic Sitting Down to Write    Sitting still for long enough - having both the will and the opportunity to sit ...

   For me, back of the idea of organic form is the concept that there is a form in all things (and in our experience) which the poet can...

               I Whether the lake is shaped more like an egg-timer or a barometer is difficult, from this angle, to say. The pa...

       The triggering of Article 50 last week was widely spoken of as an "historical event", an example of that common doxologi...

                                                                     Inching my way back in after a four month hiatus (partner had a baby...

   A few years ago I wrote a post about finding out a fellow-teacher at the London college I work at was a former member of post-punk band...