Firth and Foremost

I am just back from Scotland, where I spent the week-end at a poetry retreat organized by some very bright poetry tutees of mine - held at a remote farmhouse about 40 minutes drive from Dumfries, where Robbie Burns died, overlooking Solway Firth (pictured above).

Magma 35 has arrived in the post, including a review I've written, and featuring an essay by Laurie Smith, which proposes there might be a "school of London" poetry.

The Guardian and The Times, this week-end, mentioned the Oxfam Poetry CD I edited.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2238597.html

And I have read one of the finest novellas in the English language, A Month In The Country, by J.L. Carr. More on that later too.

Oh, and England are in the final 8 at the World Cup - thanks to Beckham.