30 poems in 30 days continues. Sunday’s poem was number 17, and it looks like this (at the moment): 17 – to escape the fire Sunday 30th January 2005 take one match, and a small bundle of sticks place the sticks on dry grass strike the match and set the grass alight stand back, and … Read more
This is the 100th post to this weblog. So, I thought it made sense (to me, at least) to post a poem from the ‘poem for 30 days’. I’m near the middle of this sequence now. This poem was written this morning. It is raw and un-edited. I like it like that. I did just … Read more
I began a project a week ago. It is a poetry sequence called “Avenues of In Between” and is based on the idea of writing a poem a day for 30 days. At the end of the thirty days I will shift from creative out-pouring to critical friend and do some editing. For now, the … Read more
A pause caused by days of travelling. Now, today a sonnet from my collection “Blue’s Song of the Earth”. If you want to see more of these, send me an email or leave a comment. Foundlings Twelve: Leave him alone with rage Source: ‘Turn of Events’ by Nigel Suratt) Like the last time he looked … Read more
I did a review of the poetry book ‘ Breathing Out’ produced by a Women’s Writers Group in St Louis. The review is on Gerald England’s excellent website and can be found here. I was really pleased to receive a copy of an email from Gerald yesterday with a copy of a note from one … Read more
Rain makes me feel emptiness deep oblivion and nothing Rain sounds on roof coldness too and the open-ended glide that eases into my mood
Today I am posting a poem from the next booklet to be produced by bluewater books. This booklet is due out in the next couple of weeks. copters gardens of gardenia blooms of second glances never sent melancholic sycamore copters spinning at my feet. nose-caught scents of cow-slips which recall beechams empty bankments steam gone, … Read more
Across poetry sequences, pieces of fiction and other creative processes, there are a number of key characters and images that repeat. These are: – Blue – Alice – Aslan – Kingfisher – Water These have a deeper range of meanings, and are ‘characters’ that I can work with through diverse contexts. Bringing them back again … Read more
Over the last ten days I have had the chance to deliver a workshop testing out some of the ideas from my PhD thesis. The workshop, called “Working with Archetypes: understanding individual and group behaviour” takes a group through a series of exercises and techniques which introduces the concepts and ways to make use of … Read more
it happened quickly when the first shards of light at early morning had glanced over the hills. then was the moment when I fully realised that all this searching collecting of myths, looking beyond beauty and nature would leave me now, emptiness glances across a crowded room people we once respected, open to criticism. inside … Read more