MTB: Counting to Three

October 3, 2024

Today is National Poetry Day in the UK and the theme is ‘counting’. It’s very fitting for poets as we …

MTB: A Tableau for Sam Hamill

September 5, 2024

“Only the fish who leapssees the moon on the water”The Oracle – Sam Hamill As writers and poets, reading the …

August 8, 2024

Already we are in the 8th month and today is the birthday of Sara Teasdale (8/8/1884). In this extract from …

July 11, 2024

After our summer break, we’re beginning again, beginning afresh, like a new dawn perhaps. Unsurprisingly that first light is the …

June 13, 2024

“We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.” Mark Strand Fragment poetry comes to us in …