Rogue Strands

Over at his excellent blog, Martyn Crucefix has just embarked on an ambitious project. Titled Works and Days of Division , it's made up ...

I'm grateful to Martyn Crucefix for featuring the title poem from The Knives of Villalejo on Instagram the other day. He also highlight...

Two of my favourite poetry bloggers have written exquisitely about their fathers in the last couple of months. Both tell us something of the...

So many emerging poets (and even a few workshop leaders) seem to think that metrics are an irrelevance when creating verse, as if we can bre...

In the run-up to the E.U. referendum, Judi Sutherland has launched a Poems for Europe feature on The Stare's Nest . From now till 15th ...

Martyn Crucefix is hardly a newcomer to the U.K. poetry scene. In fact, I've been a reader of his verse since the early 1990s. His blog ...