Thanks to @newstatesman.com for publishing my sardonic state-of-the-nation poem. It’s out today from all reputable and (some disreputable) newsagents.

Back from Paris where I had the pleasure of witnessing a Renoir unfold in real time.

Three poems by James Tate on his birthday.

Welcome, new arrivals. Here’s a poem which featured in the June/July issue of The London Magazine.

For #smallpoemsunday, this by Kristín Ómarsdottír (translated by Vala Thorodds):

I've received word that this poem I wrote will be appearing on a Brighton bus. I don't know which bus or which route, but if you get on a bus in Brighton between now and the end of February, you may well see it.

Two poems by James Tate, a poet I can’t stop discovering.

Happy new year from this doleful bat etched on a wood burner on West Dean estate.

A poem of mine that was published in the Summer 2022 issue of The Poetry Review:

Contemporary phantom (spotted at East Wittering yesterday)

Big fan of this poem by Jane Yeh in the latest Carcanet newsletter:

4 years since Stephen Sexton’s debut, whose poems remain inexhaustibly rich:

Had the pleasure of handling a rare Matisse book at work yesterday and remembered the joy of the cut-out work. Art so familiar you fail to really see it.

A poem I wrote about rain and renewal, as featured in The Rialto earlier this year: