I will be performing at TAAG, Teignmouth on 28th March, at 7.30pm
I will be performing my poetry, along with four other poets. After each poet’s performance, The Occasional Quintet will perform ‘an impression’ of the poet’s poems.
Longlisted in The National Poetry Competition 2023
Delighted to be one of 158 poets longlisted out of 19,030 entries in The National Poetry Commpetition 2023!
My Funny Valentine
Although you chase me up the stairs laughing and tickle me as I hide behind my door frightened, your hand up my nightdress, and you send me a Valentine of a man baby holding a heart over his genitals, and he’s blushing and the card is saying, IF YOU CAN’T BE GOOD BE MINE, and…
For anyone local to Devon: Saturday 18th November, 7.30pm, ‘Where The Light Gets In’. A poetry reading at the Alice Cross Centre, Teignmouth.
I will be reading alongside four other poets, Liz Diamond, Sue Proffitt, Rosie Jackson and myself, exploring the theme of brokenness and healing in our work.
A ‘drop-in’ article of mine, on reviewer & poet Nigel Kent’s blog.
Article of mine on one of my poem An Alembic on the Threshold, from my collection, ‘The Plumb Line’:
