Franz's genuinely original web-site is for teachers of creative writing in any discipline, a practical polemic for humanising university teaching and it's also useful for the practising writer

Go and see what the charismatic Andy Brown is doing now!

A great American poet. If he'd lived in late republican Rome someone would have assassinated him out of jealousy.

Britain's leading poetry publisher of contemporary poetry in the English language

One of the best small publishers of poetry in Britain

The best small publisher of modernist poetry in the 1970's and 1980's

An excellent poetry magazine which is just entering its second decade of lively existence

Michael Glover's on-line poetry magazine is turning out to be a brilliant poetry magazine with good poems, serious discussion, excellent reviews, some attractive visuals, gossip and humour.

Lively e-zine of very new and very good poetry, short fiction and criticism

Michelle McGrane's excellent poetry blog, which is really an ever-expanding anthology of what's new

One of the best poetry e-zines around

A remarkable wide range of poetry in the English language. Shearsman Books connects mainstream contemporary poetry with more adventurous poets who explore different ways of practising the art. Everybody should buy at least a couple of Shearsman books every year.

I first published in Stand in 1973 and am still publishing in a magazine founded by a great and unique poet, Jon Silkin. It is now sustained by Elaine and Jon Glover. There are always poems, fiction and other other prose that I want to read over and over again.

A magazine whose editors have an open-minded approach to style and to poetry whose purpose is to sustain the language. Each issue is packed with poems and prose whose quality is remarkable.

Britain's leading magazine of contemporary poetry and criticism

The only series of translated contemporary poetry whose translators consistently attempt to retain the verbal character of the original

This was recorded in Brno, Czechia, in July 2014 as part of the Month of Authors Reading Tour in Slovakia, Czechia and Poland

This was recorded at Spissky Castle, Slovakia in June 2016 as part of the Poetry Quartet readings with Maria Ferencuhova, David Kinloch and Dana Podracka as the other poets

Reading from "Mouth" and "The River and the Black Cat" at the Echofluxx festival in May 2019.