Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This time last year I was spending every day with the Collected Heaney - a superbly undisappointing experience, one of the most enjoyable commissions I ever had. 0173
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I learnt this by heart as a teenager. I still feel so grateful to her for her vision and her courage. A prayer. And, as they say, an eye-opener. 0379
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Really pleased to see this review in, of all places, The Idler, from Ned Green... 191
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm enjoying the miniatures of "Red River Valley", the latest from @imcmillan.bsky.social - very good on memory and shining moments. This reminds me of Causley's "Eden Rock". 1225
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Maturity is not quoting this passage in a review with the comment "That's a lot of old Bauls" 240
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Bluesky fact-check please: is the quote actually from "Vortex"? I think it's from "Vorticism" which Pound published later that year (1914) in the Fortnightly Review. 210
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"Dirt Rich" is reviewed by Declan Ryan with his usual sharpness in the current Poetry Ireland Review - I'm so grateful to him, and to Colm Toibin @poetryireland.bsky.social 0101
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The love poetry is the best bit of MacNeice's Autumn Journal 0101
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I can't review this because Naush is a friend, but I can recommend it: Lentic, the new pamphlet from @naush.bsky.social - a beautiful thing available from @guillemotpress.bsky.social 2182
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Putting suncream on my kids today I was reminded of this brilliant and beautiful Ange Mlinko poem 0100
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Kind of charmed by this statue of Thomas Mann with his dog by the Tegernsee - not charmed enough to finish one of his books, mind... 070
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I really admire Emily Wilson, but I find this (and much of the LRB review around it) just silly. And weirdly immature. If you would genuinely "be ashamed" to have written "any part" of a script in a successul much-seen film, your privilege is showing. 4101
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026When I first read this Larkin poem (a long time ago) it seemed a triumph of concision. But now I think it's vast and sprawling and mysterious. 0458
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Not the biggest Mary Oliver fan, but I love Schumann, and I was surprised by this lovely poem in her new Penguin Selected: 2426
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026From my review of Henry Power's super "Homer Haunted" in The Times: 081
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Whenever these words pop in to my head (as they do today) I think they are my favourite lines in all of English poetry 1131
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"Rain on the Studio Window" (2009) - David Hockney 0130
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Beautiful June poem for exhausted people... by Kathleen Jamie 0294
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I like this, the closing poem of John Challis's new book, "The Green Parcel" - 2172
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Haha, yes. This was one of Yuri's predecessors - Barney, the Terror of the Thames. 020
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This poem by Teresa Hooley (1888-1973) points forward to Wendy Cope 0111
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026It's not often I admire TS Eliot in his interactions with women, but I do here, when he meets Lynette Roberts (and family): 170
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Nice to see Ronald Knox mentioned here - the book about him and his brothers by his niece Penelope Fitzgerald is worth a read. Also a gifted light verser - he wrote this at Eton, calling for a garden in the schoolyard 110
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The anonymous person who thinks Tristram Fane Saunders is boring sounds a lot like Tristram Fane Saunders... 140
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Kingsley Amis - "New Approach Needed". I used to read this every Good Friday. Far more useful than something pious. I like its belligerence: "Tell your Dad that from me" 140
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Here's a George Dillon sonnet, a favourite of mine - maybe he was too fluent, but sometimes going with the flow can work. 062
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Asking for "die Akte" in Germany is fraught with peril 010
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Yuri's nose-to-brain ratio gets him into trouble sometimes but it also makes me laugh 180
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The "Bookish Beck" blog likes "Dirt Rich" - you might like it too... 2122
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026A love poem for Valentine's Day from my new book, "Dirt Rich" 0297
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This is a lovely thing - from @rorywaterman.bsky.social in the latest terrific @badlilies.bsky.social 1121
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Good piece by Mathew, but I think it's likely JC was right about Barker - 111
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026...winner of the TS Eliot prize - and I can now complete this old tweet from @nemoloris.bsky.social 050
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Great tribute. JC's approach to reviewing is an approach I share, and one which poetry needs. If your review only cements a friendship, or solicits a good review in return, or is only written for "the community", it's not doing its job. 0101
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Would love this sort of headline to say "read" 0120
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025In the Times today offering commentary in the Love Song of RFK Jr: 021
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Tom Paulin's 1986 LRB piece on Yeats' letters is a glass of champagne - both dry and sparkling. Look at these 3 sentences! "The impulse dissolved in helpless love..." What a writer he was. 1164
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17/11/2025This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be? 7204