If you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook you will already know that during April I have set myself the goal of posting a favourite poem and/or poet each day. Some days of the week I have plenty of time to read poems but on days when I’m working at my day job the poetry…
Category: Alice Oswald
Surfacing
The household has been struck down by ‘flu – having been the last to succumb it seems to have taken me an age to recover my energy and to get back to the poetry. The last thing I did before taking to my bed was a night out in London to hear Alice Oswald reading…
T S Eliot Prize
I got one of the short-listed collections Weeds & Wild Flowers by Alice Oswald for Christmas which I’m enjoying but somehow I don’t think it will win. Meanwhile the Poetry Book Society has one of Jane Draycott’s poems as poem of the month Technique A house is a good large object to visualise ‘Seeing With…