We sail, loose-kneed over murky jade water towards Terrapin Point. Our blood-red ponchos cling to our bare arms. You…

  The highly regarded poetry publisher Agenda has, exceptionally, produced a bilingual double-fronted hardback book of animal whimsies for children,…

  Here in the Municipal Garden – all white paths and straggly flowers – asphalt’s hot beneath one’s feet, baked…

  London, 1946: bombed buildings, bad food and black market spivs. While recent World War victory and Attlee’s new Welfare…

  Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, 2015, 275 pp. £16.99 (paperback) Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on…

  The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, Bohumil Hrabal, trans. James Naughton, NYRB Classics, 2015, 320pp, £10.99 (paperback)  …

  Poor world, the violet insect-o-cutor glow of streetlights on the fallen snow is something like my need of him…

  for Liz and Bob Saw this, today, and thought of you two: there, not there, the quantum flicker of…

  At a country fair a couple called Dave and Di Nelstrop Came from Bow, in Devon, to sell tansy…

  Where Have You Been? Selected Essays, Michael Hofmann, Faber & Faber, 2015, 304pp, £30 (hardback)   The poet and…

  :with time the skin thins; we become more see-through as if the drip —————-of it, passing, was diluting us.…

  I have waited for them, the uncommitted, the deceivers, in those strip-lit archipelagos of uncleared tables, ketchup bottles, smears…

  Just for a little while I thought it was you on an old blue bench in the park there…

  From a sequence inspired by a five-page factual report of an Irish Colonel in the Indian Army 1916-1946.  …

  The fields were sodden from four days of late February rain and the cold dawn air smoked to every…

  Knoydart September 2014   Smooth the barbs of night with forsaken stars; snag the waning sea its mackerel feather…

  An extract from Arcadian Nights, The Greek Myths Re-imagined, to be published by Duckworth on September 24th 2015  …

  A re-telling drawn from the Mabinogion It was back in the time in Britain when there were many rulers.…

  I brought round books and then we just sat in the living room and watched a documentary on silver-backed…

Eduardo Paolozzi, Judith Collins, Lund Humphries, 2014, 304pp, £45, 290 x 245 mm (hardback) Front and back cover showing BASH,…

  The Golden Age of Smoking, John Hartley Williams, Shoestring Press, 2014, 79pp, £10 (paperback) Twentyone Men and a Ghost,…