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Books To Go Back To: Robin Robertson’s ‘Swithering’ (Picador, 2006)

"...more recently I've been taking down Swithering and reading it again, and finding more and more to it." 2006 doesn’t seem that long...

Books To Go Back To

Andrew Jamison

Jun 224 min read

Poetry Primers: 3 Poetry Anthologies to Get You Going

Writing Tips & Advice

Andrew Jamison

Jun 182 min read

New Poem - (for paid subscribers)

Against The freezer’s intermittent buzzing back to life, against the pen’s inklessness, against tomorrow, the moulding fruit bowl, the...

New Poems

Andrew Jamison

Jun 161 min read

5 Golden Rules for Reading Your Poetry Aloud

"Being able to read your poetry aloud is not simply an add-on to your craft, it's essential..." I’ve been to quite a few poetry readings...

Writing Tips & Advice

Andrew Jamison

Jun 154 min read

Meet the Poems: Pet Sounds

I was saddened to hear of the death of Brian Wilson yesterday. I've always loved The Beach Boys, and I think Pet Sounds is a wonder. I...

Meet the Poems

Andrew Jamison

Jun 121 min read

3 Elements that Make or Break a Poem

"I’d say I value the following three traits most highly." While I approach all poetry with an open mind , and I’m always willing to...

Writing Tips & Advice

Andrew Jamison

Jun 123 min read

5 Top Tips for Submitting to Poetry Competitions (from a Judge)

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Writing Tips & Advice

Andrew Jamison

Jun 113 min read

Desert Island Poems: The Lawnmower by Michael Laskey

In this post I share a poem and my thoughts on what makes it so powerful.

Poetry

Andrew Jamison

Jun 102 min read

Get to Know My Work: 3 Books in 3 Poems

By way of introduction, in this post I’ve chosen three poems which give a snapshot of the three books I’ve published with Gallery Press. ...

Poetry

Andrew Jamison

Jun 51 min read

VIDEO - What I'm Reading - 'Poetry: A Very Short Introduction' by Bernard O'Donoghue

Andrew on Bernard O'Donoghue's 'Poetry: A Very Short Introduction' (OUP, 2019)

Video

Andrew Jamison

Jun 51 min read

Video: Review of 'Scattered Snows, to the North' by Carl Phillips

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Video

Andrew Jamison

Jun 41 min read

Desert Island Poems: The Owl by Edward Thomas

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Desert Island Poems

Andrew Jamison

May 313 min read

NEW POEM: The Days

(This poem is exclusive to paid subscribers - thank you for subscribing to The Poetry Jotter!) The Days Four fat birds fill their wings...

New Poems

Andrew Jamison

May 271 min read

NEW POEM

Ephemera Muntjac in the morning, muntjac in the evening; silhouette in mist, fleeting being fleeing. Andrew Jamison is a writer and...

New Poems

Andrew Jamison

Feb 91 min read

Meet the Poems: Killyleagh Road at Night in Snow

I don't write often about snow (probably because it rarely snows), however this is one taken from my first collection, and as I sit here and write I can see snow gathering on the patio, so I thought I'd share this one. It's a version of a a Pablo Neruda poem, and, I might add, a very loose version. I think it's fair to say that Pablo Neruda never visited the Killyleagh Road (a shame as he might have enjoyed the landscape) and to be honest I can't remember for the life of me w

Meet the Poems

Andrew Jamison

Jan 41 min read