Tag Archives: Poem

You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin @ Hundred Heroines Museum, A Visual Homage To Sophie

My visual poem You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin (2024) is exhibited at the Hundred Heroines museum and art gallery. Curated by the tour de force that is Ania Ready, of I Also Fight Windmills – A Visual Homage To Sophie runs until June 1st in celebration of the life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska. Also… Read More »

Fairytale Winter Success – Natural Wonder

Our winter programme was a fantastic success thanks to the children who attended and our magical visitors – from a hula hooping fairy, to a Fairy Queen and owls with Hoot With Me CIC. We worked with poems The Owl Fairies of Holt, Wild Homes, Flight Song and the Wild and the Wise to explore… Read More »

Library Opening in King’s Lynn

It was such an honour to open a new library at King’s Oak Academy in King’s Lynn on Friday! Children told me all sorts of reasons why reading is so good to do – ‘it makes you smart’, ‘it’s good for your brain’, ‘it helps us know what to do’ – one child said they’d… Read More »

‘Shore Song’ poem published in Wicked Leeks magazine

My poem Shore Song, inspired by the founding story of the RSPB and humanity’s ability to restore or destroy biodiversity is published in the new edition of Wicked Leeks magazine. I had the spark of an idea to write it after spotting a little egret in the reeds in East Norfolk while working on my… Read More »

Winter News 2022 and Happy New Year 2023

Wishing everyone a wonderful festive season and a happy 2023! I’m having some much needed time until 3rd January, visiting family up North, old friends in London and making mince pies to pass on to all – friends, family and neighbours, in memory of my Grandma, who taught me so much about kinship. This winter… Read More »

The Last Eel on Earth, illustrated in partnership with Plymouth University

Poem Last Eel on Earth was born in 2021 – illustrated in partnership with the University of Plymouth. Inspired by my passion for writing as a form of empowered storytelling that can have impact on the world around us, it raises awareness of eel as a species, its extraordinary journey and illegal eel trafficking. It’s… Read More »

New poem ‘Persephone Wakes’ published in anthology, ‘Like The Sea I Think’

I have a new poem published in the anthology, ‘Persephone Wakes’, written in response to climate emergency, in a new anthology of marine fiction from Norfolk, ‘Like The Sea I Think’. It launches in the Book Hive, Norwich, May 28th 6pm. Persephone was the goddess of Spring and according to ancient myth, was kidnapped by… Read More »

‘The Enchanted Mirror’ – Text Art Poem at ‘Gazing Back’, Cambridge

I’m pleased to have a new poem ‘The Enchanted Mirror’ exhibited as a text art piece, as part of Gazing Back, a group show of women artists, curated by Jill Eastland and Faye Wright, responding to concepts of the ‘male gaze’. Says Faye, ‘I also wanted to exhibit work that provoked the audience to think… Read More »

‘Yarmouth Sublime’ – Public Art Poem at Great Yarmouth Station Forecourt

Saturday, they come: the station heaving, a thousand dreaming, of sea air sublimeTram engines glisten, as Awdry listens, ‘‘It’s Toby the Tram!’’ Thomas whistles and chimesStroll here to open your eyes: a truss of a walk, between three ways, entwinedVauxhall Bridge clatters, arches stoic – a frisson of steam trains, thundering through timeHerring, coal and… Read More »