Nearly a decade ago, I asked the question, “Wouldn’t it be great if a service like Pandora [or Spotify] existed for poetry?” A variety of experiments in trying to “teach” computers how to analyse individual poems led me to conclude that this approach was a dead end. Then one day in the shower, I had …
To my knowledge, the T.S. Eliot prize shortlist has never included someone in Eliot’s own circumstances–that is, an American-born poet living in the UK. Yet there are many of us out here, and many worth knowing more about. I have therefore complied a list of Five Expat Poets to Watch in 2016. Seek them out, …
Following on from last year’s success, I will again be offering a limited number of one-to-one “Poetry Surgeries” through the UK Poetry Society in St. Albans, Hertfordshire on Sunday, January 31st. This is a great way to get new perspectives and reinvigorate your writing for the coming year. Valerie Morton, author of two full-length collections …
January Poetry Surgeries in St. Albans, Hertfordshire Read More »
I have once again compiled a list of five British poets who I think out to be more widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. In this article, I also give a few tips of the hat to individuals and organisations who are making a difference by breaking down barriers geographic and otherwise in …
My copies of Poetry Salzburg Review 28 arrived today, with its signature surrealist cover holding nearly 200 pages of enticing poetry and reviews. Among them are two new poems from me–“The Computer Programmer’s Wife”, to which I expect many a beleaguered techno-spouse might relate, and the off-kilter Anglophonic lament “Getting On With It”. I am …
Two Poems, and a Review of The Knowledge, in Poetry Salzburg Review Read More »
“If you don’t read Robert Peake’s The Knowledge as a taking-up-again of existential conversation, you’re doing it wrong.” Thus begins Abby E. Murray’s confident and considered review of my new collection for Fjords Review. It is a gift to be read at all, and clear that Abby has spent quality time with the book and …
