Is it possible to find beauty and meaning in life in the aftermath of grief? How do we interact with the too present world when our inner world has fallen …
Refugee Week – Creative Transformation Writing Exercise
Creative Transformation: In this creative writing exercise we are going to be allowing ourselves to go into positive, rewarding, uplifting territory. That doesn’t mean we deny that terrible and horrendous …
Poetic Encounters #1 – A guest post by Andrew Howe – Visual Artist
Since the start of the year, I’ve been collaborating with visual artist Andrew Howe, as part of the Encounters Exhibition at the Visual Arts Network Gallery in Shrewsbury, which opened on …
Dundee University Review of the Arts – ‘Flocks of Words’
The excellent DURA have posted a review of ‘Flocks of Words’. I am absolutely delighted by this beautifully written and thoughtful exploration of my poetry collection. I feel very well …
Review of ‘Flocks of Words’ – The Book
I’m very grateful to Pat Edwards (website mashup arts ), organiser of Verbatim Poetry on the Welsh Border, for reading and reviewing my new collection – Flocks of Words. It’s a strange …
Heavenly Lights – a writer’s response to stained glass
A few months ago, I happened to see an image online which showed a section of a window designed and created by Margaret Agnes Rope (1882-1953). Despite having lived in …
Imagined Worlds – Coleridge and Kublai Khan
As a young person, I was very fortunate to have an excellent education. However, I fear it was a bit lacking in regards to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I went to an American …