Archive - A Poetry Notebook

Twinklings and twinges

On 'The Bean Eaters', lists and list poems

Jul 23 •

June 2025

I remember Adlestrop—

What's in a name?

Jun 20 •

May 2025

Something almost being said

Larkin, Tennyson and 'The Trees'

May 16 •

April 2025

A story by Katherine Mansfield

Apr 21 •

March 2025

A story, of sorts

Mar 21 •

February 2025

Books are things like us

On the history of the notebook

Feb 28 •

Who owns the sky?

Condensation trails, conspiracies, and strange, fish-shaped craft

Feb 15 •

Feb 5 •

December 2024

Books of the year

The best ones I read in 2024: old, new and new-ish

Dec 20, 2024 •

Take us the little foxes

Animal and AI encounters

Dec 6, 2024 •

October 2024

The Man Who Sold Knives

Oct 15, 2024 •

Sweet soul travelling

Translating Hadrian's final poem

Oct 8, 2024 •

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