Poets, musicians, and filmmakers from all over the world converged on FelixPakhuis in Antwerp last Saturday for a fantastic day of screenings and conversation. It was a pleasure to see John Glenday again, and to meet outstanding poets like Michael Symmons Roberts and Zeynep Köylü alongside filmmakers like Marc Neys and Adele Myers. You can …
Abegail Morley has kindly featured me today on her excellent website The Poetry Shed. I was lucky enough to catch her attention at the Troubadour Poetry Prize Reading last year, and not long after that she invited me to read at the Royal Academy as part of the Ekphrasis project. It has been a pleasure …
I started Transatlantic Poetry on Air because nothing quite like it existed at the time. It has been a great opportunity to connect poets around the world to new audiences. Here is a short video summarising all that we’ve accomplished together (poets, partners, and audience) over the past year. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRXpDD7GW2Q]
The Poetry Storehouse is doing for poetry what “open source” has done for software by gathering text and audio recordings under a Creative Commons license. I wrote a bit about what this means, and why it matters, on The Huffington Post. Because I love this idea, and love collaboration in general, I released a number …
My friend the Scottish poet Andrew Philip wrote a review of The Silence Teacher that I just discovered tonight. His perspective is one I greatly respect–not only because I hold him in such high esteem as a poet, but because he, too, has walked grief’s road after losing an infant son. It must have therefore …
Hot on the heels of rounding up the 21 most-mentioned poets on my own website, HuffPo US just unveiled my list of five British poets to watch in 2014. These are all poets with a unique voice and strong commitment to writing who are invigorating language, cheering up our commutes, and keeping us company in …
