Wrestling Emily Dickinson

Don't weep for the seeds you were hoping to sow, dead before you plant them: just put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the n...

I haven't written anything here in a while. Partly this is because I have, as longtime readers will be aware,  increasingly been wri...

I need to know it's there: the escape key, the toppled King, the hand brought down three times, the towel thrown in: it has to be a...

I built three walls around my heart, 'til you came, making me feel the old fear again: someone colossal enough to see the life I hid ...

With the news this morning that he  died at the age of 69 , today is a difficult day to be a David Bowie fan. Like many of us, I grew up in...

We have to bomb, you say, because they throw gay men off buildings. He was white, and drunk, the man in the bar who denounced my friends...

All that cliché heartleap stuff: it happens when I hear you’re coming over, when my phone vibrates and it’s your face I see, and I th...