Early one morning in London – on Boxing Day – a minicab driver and his customer discover they have much in common. They are of a certain age, came to Britain at about the same time, in their teens, lived in the same street in Kilburn in the 1950s and...

"In Just Think of It", his first collection for over twenty years, Gavin Bantock proves that he has not grown tame. His many years in Japan have enriched his perspective when writing about life in Britain; he is also an acute observer of Japanese lif...

John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. it is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words. T...

Peter Sansom's "Everything You've Heard is True" (Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 1990) was a notable debut. "The Times" declared the poems on his Nottinghamshire childhood "as good as Tony Harrison's adventures in a similar vein", celebrating "a...