Matthew Paul: Poetry & Stuff

For the month from late July until late August, the poet Paul Brookes has been / will be publishing, at his Substack journal The Starbeck Orion, daily contributions to a festschrift for Ian Parks, to mark forty years since Parks’s first poem was published.

After a lovely piece by Parks’s songwriting partner, Mick Jenkinson, yesterday’s instalment also included a short essay by me on Parks’s poetry about music, and jazz and blues in particular. It’s available here, at the bottom of the page.