Jane Kenyon and I almost avoided marriage because her widowhood would have been so long, between us was there such a radical difference in age. And yet today it is twenty-two years since she died, of ...

We’ve had poets before who wrote little poetry. The short-lived Chidiock Tichborne, for example, and other minor poets who managed a single memorable poem. Or T.S. Eliot and Philip Larkin, who kept a ...