I had the chance to visit Ormskirk to give a visiting lecture at Edge Hill Uni, thanks to the brilliant poet and editor James Byrne. James is a remarkable writer, but also someone who has a truly global vision of poetry, with his feet firmly on the ground. It was great to meet his students, on a course he runs similar to the one i have at kingston university, and talk to them about balancing subject with method in poetry. It was a lecture on how I believe a poet should mindfully choose how as well as what they write about. They were, as James was, really hospitable. I also got to stay on campus, a unique experience, and during a huge storm.