Rogue Strands

While maintaining many characteristic traits of his poetry, such as the portrayal of relationships and the human significance of objects, al...

Due to having a generous mention in the acknowledgements section of Richie McCaffery’s third full collection, Summer / Break (Shoestring Pr...

Richie McCaffery has very kindly sent me a copy of his new pamphlet, titled Coping Stones (Fras Publication, 2021). Being a one-man band, I ...

Richie McCaffery is an unusual poet. To start with, his poems are immediately recognisable. And then there’s his commitment to his method. I...

I'm pleased to report that Richie McCaffery has posted a short sequence from my first full collection, The Knives of Villalejo , on his ...

As mentioned in a recent post, I don’t feel it’s ethical for me to review books which wear my endorsement on their back cover or which incl...

Richie McCaffery has shut up shop at The Cat Flap , which formed part of his Copy Cats project, and has started a new poetry blog that hold...

Over at his Copy Cats blog, Richie McCaffery has posted a beautifully written and insightful review of The Knives of Villalejo . Richie pro...

As part of the website for his new proofreading and copy editing venture, Copy Cats , Richie McCaffery has launched a poetry-oriented blog, ...

Abegail Morley is the curator of a veritable treasure trove of verse over at The Poetry Shed . Today she's featuring two excellent piece...

The emergence of Poetry Spotlight   is one of the most interesting recent developments in U.K. poetry on the internet. The site itself exp...

I'm now back in deepest Extremadura, having met some terrific people in Shrewbury and Oxford. Over thirty of my pamphlets flew into the ...

When I reviewed Richie McCaffery's excellent Happen Stance pamphlet, Spinning Plates , on Rogue Strands in 2012, I ended my piece by s...

June will see the publication of Richie McCaffery's first full collection, titled Cairn (Nine Arches Press). I've been looking forwa...

In our recent reviews of Luke Samuel Yates' pamphlet, The pair of scissors that could cut anything , over at Sphinx (see here ), both R...

I read yesterday that John Field will be appearing at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (see here ). This is excellent news, as he's been se...

I was very pleased to find a copy of The Frogmore Papers Issue 81 waiting for me on my doorstep when I arrived home yesterday. Not only doe...

Thanks are due to Richie McCaffery for posting a link on Facebook to the Telegraph's so-called review of Ian Hamilton's Collected Po...

Richie McCaffery's Spinning Plates (Happen Stance Press, 2012) is a book that I've been carrying around for the last few weeks whi...