TLS ‘Freelance’ article

My article on book collecting and the World’s Classics series appeared in the Times Literary Supplement of 26 April.

Spectator Poem

My poem “The Last Bus Home” was published in The Spectator 13 April 2019. It is a Liverpool poem placed in the 1970s when I was a student. Another poem, “Cooking in a Bedsitter”, was published in the same magazine on 18 May.

Aldous Huxley Talk

I gave a talk on 20 March at the Century Club on Aldous Huxley and Brave New World.

Poetry at the Music Room Bloomsbury

I read with A.C. Bevan and Cathy Galvin at The Music Room in Bloomsbury on 27th March to accompany the launch of Ian Harrow’s new Melos press poetry pamphlet, The Quiet Life.

Poems from the Welsh Borders

A new anthology of poems from the Welsh Borders is forthcoming from Seren Books and I am pleased to be one of many contributors.

Poetry Podcast

A podcast where I talk about Andrew Marvell and John Donne with Julia Copus has just been released on the Royal Literary Fund website.