I've been enjoying Elsa Cross's work for some years now, thanks to Anamaría Crowe Serrano and Shearsman Books. Here are some favourite...

I have fewer passages to quote with this collection because many of these poems' power comes from the way they operate as a whole;...

A continuing selection of my favourite passages from JL Williams' third collection: Dark, this desire for space. The wasteland stained...

I liked Williams' first collection, Condition of Fire, and published two selections of passages on my old Blogspot blog. Indeed, she...

This weekend I was thrilled to learn of a new review of my pamphlet of flash fictions, Hometown, by Michael Loveday in Flash: The...

Herewith a third and final round of passages! ...a green hillside in Gunhill as evening fell just as it was falling somewhere else as it...

A second selection of favourite passages: People walking, many tonight, and almost in rhythm, as if it were a way of collectively...

I'm relishing Cole Swensen's new book. Here is a first array of favourite passages: The first walk: the first line: that so alone am I...

Here's a second run of favourite passages from this splendid book: Do not intrude too much Into the message you carry.... from 'Johann...

I've relished this book; here are some favourite passages. What is the language using us for? Said Malcolm Mooney moving away Slowly over...

At the Free Verse Book Fair in London yesterday, I bought more than I should have, as usual, and began reading this splendid pamphlet on...

We had a wonderful tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, studio, and houses he designed in the nearby area yesterday. Here are some images...

I'm sure I've never had a chapbook as widely reviewed as Scar, and as I think/hope it's my best work to date, I'm dearly heartened by it....

My Anne Carson reading group here in Bath continues, and The Beauty of the Husband is next up, so here are some of my favourite passages....

Late into my research and writing of the poems about the effects of climate change in Illinois in my next collection, The Weather in...

I'm happy to say that this impressive debut has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. Here are some favourite...

I'm surprised and delighted my chapbook, Scar, which came out a year ago this month, is still going strong, with a new review in Poetry...

My partner of seven years, Trevor Lillistone, and I married at the Bath Register Office on Saturday, 10 June. It was followed by a...

Jo Hastie has composed a thorough and appreciative review of Scar now up on the DURA website here. I was especially glad to see Hastie...

I tend to devote these posts of favourite passages from contemporary poetry collections to poets I suppose underknown--which is to say...