Lady Godiva and Me

In Psychoanalysis and Storytelling (1994) Peter Brooks wrote of “..that desired place where literature and life converge, and where litera...

Rural Ireland in the 1930s. Late at night, or early in the morning two brothers walking home from a party, they decide to take the short cu...

Firstly, let’s get rid of the idea of the poem as an autobiography. Yes there is an I. Oft ic sceolde āna ūhtna gehwylce mīne ceare c...

So as antidote to sludge, I recommend Geoffrey Hill’s lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry which are available here: http://www.keble.ox.a...

The Evils of Academic writing. Smith, H. (2005). The Writing Experiment: Strategies of Innovative Creative Writing. Crows Nest, Australia, ...

Back in 1975 or 76 I memorized MacNeice’s Cradle song for Eleanor. It was in an anthology of poems we were abusing in class, along with Bag...

Is an interesting phenomena. But first a different, less explicable type of forgetting. Having spent twelve months reading poetry I have to ...