If a Selected Poems has an introductory note, it’s usually not very instructive, but Lavinia Greenlaw’s comments are genuinely interesting: ‘A poem is sudden and then it is slow. It continues to move between these two states while I try to keep up with its swerves or chip away at each impasse. When a poem … Continue reading ’wherever you get to is not far, still nowhere’
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‘High hopes or none, we’ve no idea where we are’
If I’m unsure about a book of poetry, if I like some poems but not others, I will copy out the ones that work. It means I have the poems to re-read, but more importantly it slows me down enough to have a proper look, or listen (I could, after all just photocopy them). Copying … Continue reading ‘High hopes or none, we’ve no idea where we are’

