Nothing lasts forever: Hope Gardens and the meaning of permanence

In which the poet visits a new estate which will be dismantled in 2024, and has a think about our understandings of home and the temporary

The provincial sublime: transcendence and the post-industrial

Poetry can still offer a kind of transformative power, but to appreciate it your gaze may have to shift in some unexpected ways

A distinctive aesthetic, a hand-crafted feel, beautiful objects… and now an all-dayer in Kent with the greatest line-up ever

Railways do the job of poetry before poets even get on board – so different approaches are needed

It’s one year since my pamphlet was published. Here’s a quick look at three reviews of it

On the one hand, nice furniture and 400 new jobs… on the other, corporate uniformity, dirty air and premature deaths

Some reflections on the little miracles of how and why my debut poetry pamphlet came into the world this month