Round-up

It feels as if I’ve been neglecting this blog, mostly in favour of writing, but a report on Convoy’s progress is well over-due. In his blog this morning Mark Doty describes his newest book, Deep Lane, thus  – The book has the force of selfhood. So it is with Convoy which does seem to be…

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Poetry and Perfume

I thought I’d give a mention to the series of posts on Jehanne Dubrow’s blog about poems and fragrance. Each one is a meditation on scent accompanied by an appropriate poem. You can almost smell the perfume – a kind of scratch and sniff effect and the poems have included one of my favourite’s – Mark…

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