Rogue Strands

Back in 2009, not long after having started Rogue Strands, I published a post titled "The Toad Work" , in which I reflected on how...

I've blogged previously about my admiration for Maggie O'Farrell's verse back in the 1990s, long before she became famous as a n...

Kate Clanchy's recent feature in The Guardian , titled The Very Quiet Foreign Girls poetry group , was both inspiring and depressing. ...

Michael Hofmann is one of the most interesting figures in the U.K. literary scene. As a consequence, I'm always on the look-out for feat...

I've been catching up on my reading after a couple of weeks away, and especially enjoyed Julia Copus' feature in The Guardian a cou...

As part of their extensive web archive, The Guardian provide an online version of Philip Larkin's 1959 review of John Betjeman's Col...

There's an article by Paul Farley up on the Guardian website today as part of their "Once upon a life" series. The story of hi...

Today sees us back at The Guardian website once more, simply because there's a fascinating blog up by Jonathan Jones, titled "Why I...

The Guardian have today published their standard late-November feature: a selection of literary luminaries have offered their Christmas pick...