It's been a quiet few months so I'm pleased to have a poem in this fine mag. In good bookshops everywhere...

Kneecap know what all us Irish know: the ultimate weapon is to consign you to history.

Very pleased with this news! It's such an astonishing thing when someone else likes a poem!

Larkin's 'Importance of Elsewhere'. A bit imperial but he captured something about Belfast no one else has.

Reading Louis MacNeice's 'Autumn Journal' is really disturbing at the moment...

Thanks to @ellafrears.bsky.social for pointing me towards this gem. I don't believe a word of it but it's absolutely magnificent. Like a Norn Irn Lord of the Rings with really arsey, off their tits hobbits.

I was young and drunk when I chose my Amazon name. You should see the exchanges I have with their customer services people under that moniker...

Always blown away by this. Rediscovered it the other day and was still astonished.

This recently went up outside the 'Keats at the Globe' pub in Moorgate.

Know that feeling from teaching. Always makes me think of Roy Fisher...

First post... This is about the most hopeful image I can think of in the present time.