Poems

Attention Commentators …

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I write this blog from Ted Hughes’ old gaff – Lumb Bank, perched above the misty Calder Valley near Heptonstall […]

Andrea Hill is the Chief Executive of Suffolk County Council. She’s been all over the papers this weekend. People are […]

I’m despairing somewhat. The whizz-kids at Suffolk County Council are trying to close Bungay Library. We’ve only recently moved to […]

… so sing Ocean Colour Scene. And last night I had the pleasure of having Simon Fowler sing that a […]

I did loads of writing at the end of last year. Sadly most of it was this poem, which I’ll […]

Throughout my career I’ve been lucky enough to work with the illustrator Sam Ratcliffe. He began by drawing unflattering pictures of the […]

Happy New Year gang. Here’s my new year poem from this week’s Saturday Live : Good morning Britain, carpe diem, […]

I’ve been asked to write a poem for the inaugural exhibition at an art gallery in Shoreditch. The theme is […]

I was on Saturday Live this morning with Rachel Johnson, who edits the The Lady and of course the lovely […]