I picked this expression up from an address that Paul Farley made at the Griffin Poetry Awards. He seems to have got it from a poet who in turn remembers hearing it from another poet. If it has passed around so much among poets, I assume that this expression, to an extent encapsulates the vulnerability […]
As I run through the platform to catch the evening train, I am thinking of two poets. I who have just stepped out of a meeting on the impact of financial downturn on the advertising budgets am now thinking of poets, exile and Palestine. I belong there. I have many memories. I was born as […]
If not for anything else, this unimposing stance of poetry alone makes it extremely relevant today. I like the way poetry distances itself – like disobedient strands of hair – from the constant urges of our world to make things happen. It seems to have no inbuilt need to convince, to transform, to convert, to […]
