Bookish

• May 2024
  • May 30, 2024 Dear John Dickerson May 30, 2024
• September 2022
  • Sep 30, 2022 Losing Hilary Mantel Sep 30, 2022
• July 2022
  • Jul 10, 2022 Fins fletched like wings Jul 10, 2022
• February 2022
  • Feb 21, 2022 Of night and light and the half light Feb 21, 2022
  • Feb 3, 2022 Hurry Feb 3, 2022
• January 2022
  • Jan 30, 2022 The forest Jan 30, 2022
  • Jan 10, 2022 The tree Jan 10, 2022
  • Jan 2, 2022 A second life Jan 2, 2022
• October 2018
  • Oct 5, 2018 Green leaves and blossoms Oct 5, 2018
• June 2018
  • Jun 17, 2018 Midstream Jun 17, 2018
• August 2017
  • Aug 12, 2017 These wild solitudes Aug 12, 2017
• May 2017
  • May 31, 2017 Don't you hear the goldenrod whispering goodbye? May 31, 2017
• April 2017
  • Apr 16, 2017 Love is the fellow of the resurrection Apr 16, 2017
  • Apr 14, 2017 Now we are they who weep Apr 14, 2017
  • Apr 13, 2017 This bread I break Apr 13, 2017
  • Apr 3, 2017 Past pronouns Apr 3, 2017
• March 2017
  • Mar 17, 2017 I have picked wild flowers for you Mar 17, 2017
• February 2017
  • Feb 20, 2017 Newmown hay and ancient woods Feb 20, 2017
  • Feb 13, 2017 Quiet Feb 13, 2017
  • Feb 6, 2017 Unhealthy and o'erdarkened ways Feb 6, 2017
• December 2016
  • Dec 25, 2016 An incandescent fall Dec 25, 2016
• November 2016
  • Nov 13, 2016 Anniversary Nov 13, 2016
• September 2016
  • Sep 28, 2016 On Emma Sep 28, 2016
  • Sep 5, 2016 The Snowy Day Sep 5, 2016
• July 2016
  • Jul 30, 2016 All the fragile blue flowers Jul 30, 2016
  • Jul 20, 2016 The Open Door Jul 20, 2016
  • Jul 5, 2016 Magic words Jul 5, 2016
• June 2016
  • Jun 20, 2016 No one chooses refugee camps Jun 20, 2016
  • Jun 12, 2016 Wise trees stand sleeping Jun 12, 2016
• April 2016
  • Apr 23, 2016 This miracle in black ink Apr 23, 2016
• March 2016
  • Mar 29, 2016 Easter Rising Mar 29, 2016
  • Mar 25, 2016 The gates of bliss Mar 25, 2016
• February 2016
  • Feb 19, 2016 Henry James Asks for Directions Feb 19, 2016
  • Feb 6, 2016 Shooting from the gut Feb 6, 2016
• January 2016
  • Jan 22, 2016 Broken creatures Jan 22, 2016
• December 2015
  • Dec 26, 2015 He has put on the garment of the world Dec 26, 2015
  • Dec 25, 2015 This is the child Dec 25, 2015
  • Dec 24, 2015 Death and a maiden Dec 24, 2015
  • Dec 10, 2015 This is just to say Dec 10, 2015
• November 2015
  • Nov 13, 2015 Five years Nov 13, 2015
  • Nov 2, 2015 How great is that darkness Nov 2, 2015
• October 2015
  • Oct 30, 2015 Reading Lila: There is nothing lost Oct 30, 2015
  • Oct 14, 2015 Honestly brutal Oct 14, 2015
• September 2015
  • Sep 15, 2015 Pride and Prejudice and Popcorn Sep 15, 2015
• August 2015
  • Aug 26, 2015 We do those shadows tread Aug 26, 2015
• July 2015
  • Jul 22, 2015 The poetic close-talking of John Donne Jul 22, 2015
• June 2015
  • Jun 17, 2015 All the air things wear Jun 17, 2015
  • Jun 6, 2015 Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie Jun 6, 2015
• May 2015
  • May 15, 2015 Unvisited tomes May 15, 2015
• April 2015
  • Apr 25, 2015 Where storms and stars come from Apr 25, 2015
  • Apr 14, 2015 Sadly descends the autumn evening Apr 14, 2015
  • Apr 4, 2015 He lives, he wakes Apr 4, 2015
• March 2015
  • Mar 27, 2015 White sleep and silence Mar 27, 2015
  • Mar 18, 2015 Roads diverge Mar 18, 2015
  • Mar 17, 2015 Like a dim picture of the drowned past Mar 17, 2015
  • Mar 12, 2015 Baby lit Mar 12, 2015
  • Mar 10, 2015 Autumn in prose Mar 10, 2015
• February 2015
  • Feb 19, 2015 A shaft of Autumn water, and a round moon Feb 19, 2015
  • Feb 14, 2015 Love is not love Feb 14, 2015
  • Feb 4, 2015 Harper Lee Ever After Feb 4, 2015
• January 2015
  • Jan 6, 2015 Poem for Epiphany Jan 6, 2015
  • Jan 1, 2015 Poem for the New Year Jan 1, 2015
• December 2014
  • Dec 25, 2014 Poem for the Nativity Dec 25, 2014
• November 2014
  • Nov 24, 2014 Books of our times Nov 24, 2014
  • Nov 13, 2014 For Ben Nov 13, 2014
  • Nov 10, 2014 That I should love a bright particular star Nov 10, 2014
  • Nov 1, 2014 Belittled Women Nov 1, 2014
• October 2014
  • Oct 16, 2014 In the springing of the year Oct 16, 2014
  • Oct 14, 2014 So many kinds of yes Oct 14, 2014
  • Oct 6, 2014 Mary, Martha, Lazarus Oct 6, 2014
• September 2014
  • Sep 24, 2014 Motherhood statement Sep 24, 2014
• May 2014
  • May 13, 2014 How soon, my dear May 13, 2014
• April 2014
  • Apr 23, 2014 Shakespeare: In hope my verse shall stand Apr 23, 2014
  • Apr 20, 2014 Resurrection, imperfect Apr 20, 2014
  • Apr 18, 2014 Each leaf which falls in Autumn Apr 18, 2014
• March 2014
  • Mar 23, 2014 Joy sits singing in the trees Mar 23, 2014
  • Mar 15, 2014 Death seems a comely thing Mar 15, 2014
  • Mar 10, 2014 Fatally cheap Mar 10, 2014
  • Mar 1, 2014 A fatal cheapness Mar 1, 2014
• February 2014
  • Feb 19, 2014 Weep you no more, sad fountains Feb 19, 2014
  • Feb 19, 2014 There is nothing lost Feb 19, 2014
• January 2014
  • Jan 6, 2014 An Unexpected Journey Jan 6, 2014
• December 2013
  • Dec 29, 2013 Collect for the Sunday after Christmas Dec 29, 2013
  • Dec 23, 2013 For unto us Dec 23, 2013
• October 2013
  • Oct 10, 2013 Giftshop fail Oct 10, 2013
• September 2013
  • Sep 30, 2013 In search of the same landfall Sep 30, 2013
  • Sep 10, 2013 One thousand monkeys Sep 10, 2013
  • Sep 5, 2013 In the greenwood quires the thrush Sep 5, 2013
• August 2013
  • Aug 31, 2013 Vale Seamus Heaney Aug 31, 2013
  • Aug 20, 2013 Though much is taken, much abides Aug 20, 2013
  • Aug 15, 2013 Going hence Aug 15, 2013
  • Aug 10, 2013 Art is one Aug 10, 2013
  • Aug 7, 2013 Jane Austen: Game Theorist? Aug 7, 2013
  • Aug 4, 2013 The absurdity of not writing poems Aug 4, 2013
• July 2013
  • Jul 30, 2013 Healing reason's wounds Jul 30, 2013
  • Jul 25, 2013 So near to paradise Jul 25, 2013
• June 2013
  • Jun 25, 2013 Bonfire night Jun 25, 2013
  • Jun 21, 2013 Poem for Winter Solstice Jun 21, 2013
  • Jun 13, 2013 Buried hearts of mine to beat Jun 13, 2013
  • Jun 10, 2013 The colour of my day Jun 10, 2013
  • Jun 3, 2013 Words, words, words Jun 3, 2013
• May 2013
  • May 28, 2013 Leave me a place underground May 28, 2013
  • May 12, 2013 And warm desire May 12, 2013
  • May 12, 2013 Gold oft tried and ever new May 12, 2013
  • May 9, 2013 A hundred billion bottles May 9, 2013
  • May 2, 2013 Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair May 2, 2013
• April 2013
  • Apr 26, 2013 My heart is like an apple-tree Apr 26, 2013
  • Apr 25, 2013 Aubade for Anzacs Apr 25, 2013
  • Apr 14, 2013 A dream of spring Apr 14, 2013
  • Apr 7, 2013 Thou among the wastes of time must go Apr 7, 2013
  • Apr 2, 2013 Unscenery Apr 2, 2013
• March 2013
  • Mar 31, 2013 Thou wast up by break of day Mar 31, 2013
  • Mar 29, 2013 Good Friday, 1613 Mar 29, 2013
  • Mar 26, 2013 From these would I be gone Mar 26, 2013
  • Mar 10, 2013 Great circles, radials Mar 10, 2013
  • Mar 7, 2013 Brontë on Austen Mar 7, 2013
• February 2013
  • Feb 26, 2013 Jane Austen's inward world Feb 26, 2013
  • Feb 19, 2013 Jane Austen's private world Feb 19, 2013
• January 2013
  • Jan 28, 2013 Give birth again to the dream Jan 28, 2013
  • Jan 17, 2013 Frost / Kennedy Jan 17, 2013
  • Jan 12, 2013 She liked whate'er she looked on Jan 12, 2013
  • Jan 10, 2013 I love your verses with all my heart Jan 10, 2013
• December 2012
  • Dec 25, 2012 The descending blue Dec 25, 2012
  • Dec 24, 2012 A Dickensian Christmas Eve Dec 24, 2012
  • Dec 22, 2012 Swim away along the soft trails Dec 22, 2012
  • Dec 19, 2012 Little ones, baby ones Dec 19, 2012
  • Dec 13, 2012 Come down to the water Dec 13, 2012
  • Dec 11, 2012 Between a book and a hard place Dec 11, 2012
  • Dec 9, 2012 There and back again Dec 9, 2012
• September 2012
  • Sep 29, 2012 When I put out to sea Sep 29, 2012
  • Sep 22, 2012 We lose what on ourselves we spend Sep 22, 2012
  • Sep 19, 2012 Keeping the bathwater Sep 19, 2012
  • Sep 15, 2012 Over each one its own particular sky Sep 15, 2012
  • Sep 9, 2012 Scatter these blossoms Sep 9, 2012
  • Sep 6, 2012 Domum tuam, Domine Sep 6, 2012
• August 2012
  • Aug 30, 2012 Starting from Paumonok Aug 30, 2012
  • Aug 13, 2012 Good shepherds Aug 13, 2012
  • Aug 9, 2012 Words that don't mean what you think they do but you wish they did Aug 9, 2012
  • Aug 5, 2012 Sweet especial rural scene Aug 5, 2012
• July 2012
  • Jul 31, 2012 Only connected Jul 31, 2012
  • Jul 28, 2012 Hold in the hollow of your palm Jul 28, 2012
  • Jul 14, 2012 What Home could be Jul 14, 2012
  • Jul 11, 2012 I think it would be fun to run a newspaper Jul 11, 2012
  • Jul 9, 2012 I want to go to there... Jul 9, 2012
  • Jul 2, 2012 Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, & Spinach Jul 2, 2012
• June 2012
  • Jun 30, 2012 Cherished like the thought of heaven Jun 30, 2012
  • Jun 14, 2012 Dusk in Academia Jun 14, 2012
  • Jun 12, 2012 Evening in America Jun 12, 2012
  • Jun 11, 2012 The good fellowship of dust Jun 11, 2012
  • Jun 4, 2012 The humane imagination Jun 4, 2012
  • Jun 2, 2012 Leaves look pale Jun 2, 2012
• May 2012
  • May 30, 2012 Tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings May 30, 2012
  • May 26, 2012 He's made the things that bring him near May 26, 2012
  • May 12, 2012 I that knew what harbour'd in that head May 12, 2012
  • May 7, 2012 Wind, willows and water May 7, 2012
  • May 4, 2012 All leaflife and starshower May 4, 2012
• April 2012
  • Apr 28, 2012 Not unwelcome waves the wood Apr 28, 2012
  • Apr 24, 2012 Avatars Apr 24, 2012
  • Apr 24, 2012 Life of our life, the garden lives and sings Apr 24, 2012
  • Apr 21, 2012 Live lifted up in light Apr 21, 2012
  • Apr 15, 2012 Fair Silence, fall, and set me free Apr 15, 2012
  • Apr 12, 2012 On Dickens (Part 2): Heavenly creatures Apr 12, 2012
  • Apr 9, 2012 Pride and prejudice and portraiture Apr 9, 2012
  • Apr 8, 2012 All sweetness to your Lenten lips Apr 8, 2012
  • Apr 6, 2012 A garden full of silence Apr 6, 2012
  • Apr 3, 2012 Like some great god Apr 3, 2012
• March 2012
  • Mar 30, 2012 In those unwardened provinces Mar 30, 2012
  • Mar 25, 2012 A green thought in a green shade Mar 25, 2012
  • Mar 23, 2012 This turbulent priest Mar 23, 2012
  • Mar 21, 2012 Romance and the city Mar 21, 2012
  • Mar 18, 2012 You have been mine before Mar 18, 2012
  • Mar 13, 2012 On Dickens (Part 1): Art and Life Mar 13, 2012
  • Mar 12, 2012 The book of lost tales Mar 12, 2012
  • Mar 12, 2012 Franzen versus Twitter Mar 12, 2012
  • Mar 8, 2012 The bright end of my voice Mar 8, 2012
  • Mar 4, 2012 Whatever a moon has always meant Mar 4, 2012
  • Mar 3, 2012 Spelling trouble Mar 3, 2012
  • Mar 2, 2012 On earth as it is in heaven Mar 2, 2012
• February 2012
  • Feb 26, 2012 Within the hollow crown Feb 26, 2012
  • Feb 22, 2012 And so the light runs laughing Feb 22, 2012
  • Feb 19, 2012 Blessed ones, whole ones Feb 19, 2012
  • Feb 18, 2012 Matins Feb 18, 2012
  • Feb 17, 2012 Raising the brow bar Feb 17, 2012
• January 2012
  • Jan 18, 2012 In libris Jan 18, 2012
  • Jan 6, 2012 In the quiet evening hours Jan 6, 2012
  • Jan 5, 2012 Isabel in Rome Jan 5, 2012
  • Jan 1, 2012 The year has two faces Jan 1, 2012
• December 2011
  • Dec 31, 2011 Happy old year Dec 31, 2011
  • Dec 28, 2011 How silently, how silently Dec 28, 2011
  • Dec 27, 2011 Light, which made the angels sing Dec 27, 2011
  • Dec 26, 2011 Corde natus ex parentis Dec 26, 2011
  • Dec 25, 2011 Verse for a rainy Christmas Dec 25, 2011
  • Dec 24, 2011 Iron and velvet Dec 24, 2011
  • Dec 19, 2011 When in Rome Dec 19, 2011
  • Dec 16, 2011 Stars and shells Dec 16, 2011
  • Dec 9, 2011 Of brick and bric-a-brac Dec 9, 2011
  • Dec 6, 2011 Ill conceived, poorly written Dec 6, 2011
  • Dec 4, 2011 The Poetree Dec 4, 2011
  • Dec 3, 2011 Glory be to God for yellow fruit Dec 3, 2011
  • Dec 2, 2011 From hands of falsehood Dec 2, 2011
• November 2011
  • Nov 30, 2011 Kitchen classics Nov 30, 2011
  • Nov 29, 2011 Is everything sacred? Nov 29, 2011
  • Nov 28, 2011 A penny for your opinions Nov 28, 2011
  • Nov 26, 2011 Beside the golden door Nov 26, 2011
  • Nov 22, 2011 Behold, I am making all things new Nov 22, 2011
  • Nov 18, 2011 Bright gleam of our bright star Nov 18, 2011
  • Nov 16, 2011 Willful ignorance Nov 16, 2011
  • Nov 13, 2011 I dream of you walking Nov 13, 2011
  • Nov 4, 2011 The toad work Nov 4, 2011
• October 2011
  • Oct 30, 2011 From Middlemarch Oct 30, 2011
  • Oct 28, 2011 No solid happiness Oct 28, 2011
  • Oct 26, 2011 Bookmark Oct 26, 2011
  • Oct 21, 2011 Freedom and the sea Oct 21, 2011
  • Oct 19, 2011 The benefit of doubt Oct 19, 2011
  • Oct 18, 2011 Micro-reviewing Oct 18, 2011
  • Oct 14, 2011 Everything carries me to you Oct 14, 2011
  • Oct 12, 2011 The breath of the author Oct 12, 2011
  • Oct 10, 2011 The books not taken Oct 10, 2011
• September 2011
  • Sep 29, 2011 A world in servitude to time Sep 29, 2011
  • Sep 29, 2011 The right to silence Sep 29, 2011
  • Sep 28, 2011 The real Jane Austen Sep 28, 2011
  • Sep 27, 2011 Search, and ye shall find Sep 27, 2011
  • Sep 23, 2011 Such music as lives still Sep 23, 2011
  • Sep 20, 2011 A tale of crime and cooking Sep 20, 2011
  • Sep 16, 2011 On the couch of anguish Sep 16, 2011
  • Sep 12, 2011 Saying what needs to be said Sep 12, 2011
  • Sep 9, 2011 This afternoon was the colour of water Sep 9, 2011
  • Sep 8, 2011 The end/s of fiction Sep 8, 2011
  • Sep 6, 2011 History vs non-fiction Sep 6, 2011
  • Sep 4, 2011 And you, my father Sep 4, 2011
  • Sep 1, 2011 Juvenilia Sep 1, 2011
  • Sep 1, 2011 This inconstant stay Sep 1, 2011
• August 2011
  • Aug 27, 2011 New habits Aug 27, 2011
  • Aug 25, 2011 Still the unresting castles thresh Aug 25, 2011
  • Aug 25, 2011 With taxes we buy civilisation Aug 25, 2011
  • Aug 21, 2011 Now we are 90 Aug 21, 2011
  • Aug 19, 2011 Split the lark Aug 19, 2011
  • Aug 16, 2011 Many will prophesy in my name Aug 16, 2011
  • Aug 12, 2011 Little stalk without wrinkle Aug 12, 2011
  • Aug 11, 2011 Related news Aug 11, 2011
  • Aug 5, 2011 Unresting, unhasting and silent as light Aug 5, 2011
  • Aug 3, 2011 Cracked Aug 3, 2011
  • Aug 2, 2011 West of Eden Aug 2, 2011
  • Aug 1, 2011 All well and good Aug 1, 2011
• July 2011
  • Jul 29, 2011 The woods are lovely, dark and deep Jul 29, 2011
  • Jul 27, 2011 The Asparagus Trench Jul 27, 2011
  • Jul 22, 2011 These two imparadis'd Jul 22, 2011
  • Jul 21, 2011 Out of good still to find means of evil Jul 21, 2011
  • Jul 20, 2011 To Abel, who arrived today Jul 20, 2011
  • Jul 19, 2011 Stopping the press Jul 19, 2011
  • Jul 15, 2011 For I will consider my cat Jul 15, 2011
  • Jul 14, 2011 The soul of Twitter Jul 14, 2011
  • Jul 11, 2011 The Glittering Prizes Jul 11, 2011
  • Jul 9, 2011 Recommended Reading Jul 9, 2011
  • Jul 8, 2011 Look down, look down Jul 8, 2011
  • Jul 4, 2011 Home of the brave Jul 4, 2011
  • Jul 2, 2011 Old salt Jul 2, 2011
• June 2011
  • Jun 30, 2011 To watch you sleeping Jun 30, 2011
  • Jun 24, 2011 The knuckled shadows of the western wind Jun 24, 2011
  • Jun 23, 2011 Down Under Jun 23, 2011
  • Jun 22, 2011 The harvest is plentiful Jun 22, 2011
  • Jun 20, 2011 For those who've come across the seas Jun 20, 2011
  • Jun 16, 2011 Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate Jun 16, 2011
  • Jun 16, 2011 Upon the moon's meek shine Jun 16, 2011
  • Jun 16, 2011 Bloom, waterlover Jun 16, 2011
  • Jun 9, 2011 Where any-angled light would congregate Jun 9, 2011
  • Jun 9, 2011 This is water Jun 9, 2011
  • Jun 8, 2011 Give birth again to the dream Jun 8, 2011
  • Jun 3, 2011 What is it but a dream? Jun 3, 2011
• May 2011
  • May 31, 2011 OMG! AATOTW! May 31, 2011
  • May 28, 2011 Newspeak May 28, 2011
  • May 24, 2011 More on judgment May 24, 2011
  • May 24, 2011 Die another day May 24, 2011
  • May 20, 2011 Let them sleep, Lord May 20, 2011
  • May 19, 2011 Afternoon post May 19, 2011
  • May 13, 2011 Only God can make a tree May 13, 2011
  • May 12, 2011 Which is rich? May 12, 2011
  • May 6, 2011 Sweet Queen-city of the golden South May 6, 2011
  • May 3, 2011 What's in a name? May 3, 2011
• April 2011
  • Apr 29, 2011 Be thou a new star Apr 29, 2011
  • Apr 28, 2011 Elementary Apr 28, 2011
  • Apr 27, 2011 Sunward Apr 27, 2011
  • Apr 24, 2011 Resurgam Apr 24, 2011
  • Apr 23, 2011 wireless 2.0 Apr 23, 2011
  • Apr 21, 2011 That hill of fierce fate Apr 21, 2011
  • Apr 21, 2011 Love is that liquor sweet Apr 21, 2011
  • Apr 21, 2011 The last hymn Apr 21, 2011
  • Apr 21, 2011 Mandatum novum do vobis Apr 21, 2011
  • Apr 15, 2011 I have not been as others were Apr 15, 2011
  • Apr 12, 2011 Accidental poetry Apr 12, 2011
  • Apr 12, 2011 Man was made for joy and woe Apr 12, 2011
  • Apr 8, 2011 I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each Apr 8, 2011
  • Apr 6, 2011 from The New Yorker… Apr 6, 2011
  • Apr 6, 2011 Your mind is a wild monkey, swinging from branch to branch Apr 6, 2011
  • Apr 3, 2011 Heir to my affection Apr 3, 2011
  • Apr 1, 2011 I found April in my arms Apr 1, 2011
• March 2011
  • Mar 31, 2011 Why is a raven like a writing desk? Mar 31, 2011
  • Mar 30, 2011 God be at mine end Mar 30, 2011
  • Mar 28, 2011 George Eliot on good and great Mar 28, 2011
  • Mar 27, 2011 Alarm bell Britain Mar 27, 2011
  • Mar 26, 2011 Old friends like book ends Mar 26, 2011
  • Mar 25, 2011 The moon upon her fluent route Mar 25, 2011
  • Mar 24, 2011 The good and the great Mar 24, 2011
  • Mar 22, 2011 Even more on covers Mar 22, 2011
  • Mar 21, 2011 More on covers Mar 21, 2011
  • Mar 18, 2011 I shall be telling this with a sigh Mar 18, 2011
  • Mar 16, 2011 Judging covers Mar 16, 2011
  • Mar 16, 2011 Friday’s poetry seminar Mar 16, 2011
  • Mar 15, 2011 Death for his ambition Mar 15, 2011
  • Mar 11, 2011 There is fruit, and thou hast hands Mar 11, 2011
  • Mar 11, 2011 Lyric and Bondage Mar 11, 2011
  • Mar 10, 2011 Life and art in The Winter’s Tale Mar 10, 2011
  • Mar 8, 2011 A late ramble Mar 8, 2011
  • Mar 4, 2011 A leaf that lingered Mar 4, 2011
  • Mar 2, 2011 More from the Book of Tea Mar 2, 2011
  • Mar 1, 2011 The Book of Tea Mar 1, 2011
• February 2011
  • Feb 25, 2011 With what deep murmurs Feb 25, 2011
  • Feb 24, 2011 Lines to live by Feb 24, 2011
  • Feb 22, 2011 A new leaf Feb 22, 2011
  • Feb 22, 2011 Closing borders Feb 22, 2011
  • Feb 18, 2011 We that are hedgerow folk Feb 18, 2011
  • Feb 15, 2011 Cut, cut Feb 15, 2011
  • Feb 14, 2011 Addendum Feb 14, 2011
  • Feb 14, 2011 Intimations of mortality Feb 14, 2011
  • Feb 12, 2011 Paradise Lost? Feb 12, 2011
  • Feb 11, 2011 Close close all night the lovers keep Feb 11, 2011
  • Feb 10, 2011 Beyond the pale cast of thought Feb 10, 2011
  • Feb 8, 2011 Free at last Feb 8, 2011
  • Feb 4, 2011 Within one heart so diverse mind Feb 4, 2011
  • Feb 3, 2011 Do you read me? Feb 3, 2011
• January 2011
  • Jan 28, 2011 The monstrous continent Jan 28, 2011
  • Jan 26, 2011 Last sea thing Jan 26, 2011
  • Jan 25, 2011 Riparian purloining Jan 25, 2011
  • Jan 25, 2011 Historical Friction Jan 25, 2011
  • Jan 24, 2011 There is a willow grows aslant a brook Jan 24, 2011
  • Jan 22, 2011 This too, too solid flesh Jan 22, 2011
  • Jan 20, 2011 Praise song Jan 20, 2011
  • Jan 14, 2011 The rain it rains Jan 14, 2011
  • Jan 13, 2011 Yours etc Jan 13, 2011
  • Jan 13, 2011 Googling Jan 13, 2011
  • Jan 10, 2011 On Sense and Sensibility Jan 10, 2011
  • Jan 7, 2011 A brittle heaven Jan 7, 2011
  • Jan 6, 2011 All the king's men Jan 6, 2011
  • Jan 6, 2011 Of all kings king Jan 6, 2011
  • Jan 4, 2011 Star-led wizards Jan 4, 2011
  • Jan 3, 2011 Amid dark wings of storm Jan 3, 2011
  • Jan 1, 2011 A summer miracle Jan 1, 2011
  • Jan 1, 2011 This fair folk Jan 1, 2011
• December 2010
  • Dec 31, 2010 Hardy New Year Dec 31, 2010
  • Dec 30, 2010 Murray Christmas Dec 30, 2010
  • Dec 29, 2010 Mary’s month Dec 29, 2010
  • Dec 28, 2010 A cold coming Dec 28, 2010
  • Dec 27, 2010 Contracted light, wrapt in night's mantle Dec 27, 2010
  • Dec 26, 2010 Immensity cloistered Dec 26, 2010
  • Dec 25, 2010 Now he is new Dec 25, 2010
  • Dec 24, 2010 The pale unsatisfied ones Dec 24, 2010
  • Dec 17, 2010 Ruth Park dies at 93 Dec 17, 2010
  • Dec 16, 2010 The Paris Review Interviews Dec 16, 2010
  • Dec 10, 2010 Love bade me welcome Dec 10, 2010
  • Dec 9, 2010 The Author Dec 9, 2010
  • Dec 8, 2010 Regarding Harry Dec 8, 2010
  • Dec 6, 2010 Books I wish I'd read in 2010 Dec 6, 2010
  • Dec 1, 2010 Post script Dec 1, 2010
• November 2010
  • Nov 30, 2010 Made in Heaven Nov 30, 2010
  • Nov 5, 2010 Of silence and slow time Nov 5, 2010
  • Nov 4, 2010 On William Morris Nov 4, 2010
  • Nov 3, 2010 Stewart / Colbert Rally Nov 3, 2010
  • Nov 2, 2010 a wind has blown the rain away Nov 2, 2010
• October 2010
  • Oct 27, 2010 Lost in Austen Oct 27, 2010
  • Oct 22, 2010 All things counter, original, spare, strange Oct 22, 2010
  • Oct 14, 2010 On naïve reading Oct 14, 2010
  • Oct 14, 2010 Poetry is... Oct 14, 2010
  • Oct 8, 2010 Catch the heart off guard Oct 8, 2010
  • Oct 1, 2010 What a lark! What a plunge! Oct 1, 2010
• September 2010
  • Sep 28, 2010 The world's contracted thus Sep 28, 2010
  • Sep 24, 2010 Nothing else is Sep 24, 2010
  • Sep 23, 2010 The happiness project Sep 23, 2010
  • Sep 17, 2010 The ghosts of American soldiers Sep 17, 2010
  • Sep 16, 2010 Mor(e)on happiness Sep 16, 2010
  • Sep 16, 2010 Are you from the past? Sep 16, 2010
  • Sep 15, 2010 Happiness is... Sep 15, 2010
  • Sep 15, 2010 Vale Frank Kermode Sep 15, 2010
  • Sep 10, 2010 Burn me! Sep 10, 2010
  • Sep 8, 2010 All art is a revolt against man’s fate Sep 8, 2010
  • Sep 3, 2010 We keep the wall between us Sep 3, 2010
  • Sep 1, 2010 Ten thousand things are growing in the radiance Sep 1, 2010
• August 2010
  • Aug 30, 2010 Something there is that doesn't love a stonewall Aug 30, 2010
  • Aug 20, 2010 The darker odds, the dross Aug 20, 2010
  • Aug 13, 2010 Wordless as the flight of birds Aug 13, 2010
  • Aug 13, 2010 The Bunner Sisters Aug 13, 2010
• July 2010
  • Jul 23, 2010 I love thee with a love I seemed to lose Jul 23, 2010
  • Jul 23, 2010 Accidental poetry Jul 23, 2010
  • Jul 23, 2010 John Cleary, 1917 - 2010 Jul 23, 2010
  • Jul 16, 2010 My secret's mine, and I won't tell Jul 16, 2010
  • Jul 14, 2010 The moral of the story Jul 14, 2010
  • Jul 5, 2010 A modest proposal Jul 5, 2010
  • Jul 2, 2010 The world is so full of a number of things Jul 2, 2010
• June 2010
  • Jun 25, 2010 Ask me a riddle Jun 25, 2010
  • Jun 23, 2010 Death of an Author Jun 23, 2010
  • Jun 23, 2010 Miles Franklin Winner: It's a crime! Jun 23, 2010
  • Jun 20, 2010 How I Imagine Ridley Scott Pitched Robin Hood Jun 20, 2010
  • Jun 20, 2010 Such have I dreamed Jun 20, 2010
  • Jun 11, 2010 Nothing now can ever come to any good Jun 11, 2010
  • Jun 9, 2010 Minister Describes Fall of Icarus as "Tragic" Jun 9, 2010
  • Jun 7, 2010 Poetry Challenge Jun 7, 2010
  • Jun 4, 2010 How everything turns away Jun 4, 2010
  • Jun 2, 2010 Sense and Sensuousness Jun 2, 2010
  • Jun 1, 2010 Scribes and Pharisees Jun 1, 2010
• May 2010
  • May 28, 2010 Things as they are May 28, 2010
  • May 25, 2010 Reading and democracy May 25, 2010
  • May 14, 2010 A deep, autumnal tone May 14, 2010
  • May 10, 2010 Why Autumn? May 10, 2010
  • May 8, 2010 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness May 8, 2010
• April 2010
  • Apr 17, 2010 Book Fair Day Two Apr 17, 2010
  • Apr 16, 2010 In the relic darkness of sleep and love Apr 16, 2010
  • Apr 16, 2010 Lifeline Book Fair Apr 16, 2010
  • Apr 15, 2010 Book Country Apr 15, 2010
  • Apr 7, 2010 The End of The Road Apr 7, 2010
  • Apr 7, 2010 The Last Station Apr 7, 2010
  • Apr 6, 2010 A Moving Feast Apr 6, 2010
• March 2010
  • Mar 25, 2010 Desert Island Books Mar 25, 2010
  • Mar 22, 2010 The age of metrics Mar 22, 2010
  • Mar 17, 2010 Meditations on work Mar 17, 2010
  • Mar 1, 2010 The Other Side Mar 1, 2010
  • Mar 1, 2010 Larkin and Lucky Jim Mar 1, 2010
• February 2010
  • Feb 27, 2010 Your person, your place Feb 27, 2010
  • Feb 23, 2010 Eyre(s) apparent Feb 23, 2010
  • Feb 22, 2010 Eyre up there Feb 22, 2010
  • Feb 13, 2010 A poetics of piety Feb 13, 2010
  • Feb 12, 2010 Enshaded in forgetfulness divine Feb 12, 2010
  • Feb 8, 2010 Fireworks and falling stars Feb 8, 2010
  • Feb 6, 2010 In the beginning... Feb 6, 2010
  • Feb 1, 2010 Manning Clark('s) House Feb 1, 2010
• January 2010
  • Jan 29, 2010 This tender conceptual blue net Jan 29, 2010
  • Jan 28, 2010 A truth universally acknowledged Jan 28, 2010
  • Jan 18, 2010 Best Reads of 2009 Jan 18, 2010