Herstory

Proud to have contributed a story about abortion to Divine Feminist: Womb with a View, Bridging the Spiritual + Political throughout HERSTORY - a collection of Women’s stories and art https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225791421/divine-feminist-womb-with-a-view @wombwithaview Please support this project.

Winter school

Feeling champion to have been selected to attend the University of Limerick Creative Writing Winter School.

Magma

 My dog Fin.

I am very grateful to editors Eileen Pun, Matt Howard, and Fiona Moore, for including a poem of mine in Magma's Climate Change Issue, no. 72.

Works up

I've had a wonderful time giving poetry/graphic poetry workshops to local primary school children over the last couple of weeks.

Preparing materials was fun. Happy, jealous, sad, philosophical, and jolly sorry were some of the feels I incorporated. And the kids all took part enthusiastically. Every single one of them created a brilliant poem.

Here are some of the results: 

 "I want to write a poem about when mountains are penguins."

 "I want to write a poem about when the beach is like a sleeping dog."

 "I want to write a poem about when snow is a white rabbit."

Seeing the pride on a child's face as they read a poem they have created is such a marvel, the only way to describe it would be to write or draw a poem, and maybe I'll do do that. In the meantime, I'll enjoy looking at this display put up by some of the children. Well done, kids!

Blue hour

It was a bit much, I thought, for Emily Brontë to steal all the thunder on my birthday -- something I would have associated with Charlotte -- but ne' mind, pre-orders are open now for The Blue Hour Press Anthology #4, in which I am very happy to have a poem that I wrote about my daily journey to Haworth, during my research trip last year: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bluehourpress … Many thanks to Editors, Moriah, Susan, and Heather! Suck eggs, Emily.

Man who talks

I can't locate a post thanking The Lonely Crowd for including my story "Man Who Talks to Books" in their first issue, back in 2015. There's a preview of it here. Belated and sincere thanks to Editor John Lavin.

Rialto nature

Michael Longley, a poet whose works I hold dear, chose my poem "River Dove" to include in the longlist of The Rialto Nature Poetry Competition. I feel very lucky.