Subjects

Art for all
Books
Concrete poetry
Damien Hirst
Egyptian cartoonist on trial
Fractured families
How to be a working mother and stay sane
Iain Sinclair's Hackney
Living with teenagers
Millennial angst
Nail bars
Oxford poetry professorship
Poetry in translation
Spam names
Top tips for writing poetry
Unusual influences on Modernist music
Visual arts
What are we doing to our culture?
Zany happenings around town

 

Poets

WH Auden
Joseph Brodsky
Nina Cassian
Wendy Cope
Michael Donaghy
Ernest Dowson
Sasha Dugdale
Ian Duhig
Ruth Fainlight
Annie Freud
David Grubb
Jen Hadfield
Anthony Hecht
Kevin Higgins
Ted Hughes
Agnés Léhosczky
Katia Kapovich
Glyn Maxwell
Valeria Melchioretto
James Merrill
WS Merwin
Kei Miller
Dorothy Molloy
Frances Presley
Eva Salzman
Iain Sinclair
Catherine Smith
Tomas Venclova

My reviews, cultural commentary and critical essays have been published in national magazines, online arts journals, print arts journals and local newspapers.

I review poetry and other books for publications in both in the UK and the USA.

I am a regular contributor to Poetry London and the Contemporary Poetry Review.

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a few reviews & essays online

Contemporary Poetry Review
The Tawdry Halo of the Idle Martyr
: MacNeice’s Autumn Journal
The Poet Realized: in conversation with Ruth Fainlight
Classic Readings: a take on Joseph Brodsky

The Poem.co.uk
The Speed of Dark
, by Ian Duhig
Hare Soup, by Dorothy Molloy

Normblog
Writer’s Choice: On Divine Comedies, by James Merrill