
First Lesson
On school daze, great teachers, and making sense of the past. WHY DO POETS WRITE so much about the past? Surely there’s enough going on

Way of Peace
How small events can change the course of our lives This is a poem I wrote thirty years ago, give or take. I like to think

Immigrants Open Shops: A Poetry Film
Immigrants Open Shops is a short film about a truth that I missed for many years, until it was pointed out to me by my

The Inverse Wave: A Poetry Film
The power of lovers to find each other in the world, and, even in hard times, to make the world bearable for each other, is

Lost and Found: A Poetry Film
First published in 2001 in As the Hand, the Glove, Lost and Found is a poem about waste, sustainability and recycling – and about the

A Winter Blessing: A Poetry Film
In an era when the word ‘snowflake’ has become an insult, A Winter Blessing considers our attitudes to openness and vulnerability, while the film also