Britain just hates everyone who isn’t British. They hate them at sports, they hate them at Eurovision. Maybe they’re just jealous; everyone else has better weather, better public transport, better Eurovision entries. It’s not that they hate the Irish less, they just stopped noticing Irish people when they found someone…

Reincarnation is to me a poem that belongs in the 21st century. Aren’t we all tired of 21st century life, all the working for nothing. A grinding pecking order of management, middle management, supervisors. Complaints, customer service. When did you ever hear of a worried bullfrog? I could read a…

Ian Irwin – ‘suffer little children’ Benson Bobrick – ‘Meditation on the Rings’ Freya Buckley – ‘Cut’ Simon Read – ‘Freight 93’ I don’t like to say that I have favourite poems, but perhaps I could say that I have favourite phrases that appear in poems. Ian Irwin’s line ‘My…