Spring Offensive A day to go and it will be June.Yet we’re in March-to-April weather still.Will we get there in time?All the forecasts sayit’s going to happen soon. Spilling off the jetstreamto the east, ill winds sweepdrizzle into our minds.It seems in keeping with the timesthat nothing is as it should be. 31 May 2023…

Photo by Datingscout on Unsplash     Andrew McNeillie’s New and Collected poems, Striking a Match in a Storm, is published this week by Carcanet. There will be an online launch reading on Wednesday 30th – details here.           Salmon Farm Blues   Call me old-fashioned, as you will, but I prefer…

Twickenham Garden   We say it still, asking each other how many poems do you know by heart? Meaning how many can you recite from memory and something more implying passion not rote, the stronger with time. We say by heart, because we love – as lovers remember each other – from first sight. And…