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  • Christmas Retreat

    Christmas Retreat

    This Christmas has mostly been about recovering from minor arthroscopic surgery to correct a torn meniscus in my left knee.  My stitches came out on 19 December and I had hoped to do a lot of writing because, coincidentally, my husband and two grown-up children have been visiting a close family friend in Australia for Read more

  • School for Writers with the National Literacy Trust

    School for Writers with the National Literacy Trust

    In November 2018, I was lucky enough to attend two days of training with the National Literacy Trust to update and improve my skills as a writing workshop facilitator in schools. The course was based in Victoria Park Primary School, an absolutely lovely school in Bristol, and facilitated by Fay and Tim from the National Read more

  • Trowbridge to Avebury on the Number 49 Bus

    Trowbridge to Avebury on the Number 49 Bus

    It’s November and the weather is alternatively grey and grim or sunny and seriously cold, and the news is pretty dreadful these days, so I thought I’d cheer myself up by remembering a lovely bus journey I took on a beautiful day in October – when it was as warm as June. As part of Read more

  • My bags are packed for Poetry in Aldeburgh

    My bags are packed for Poetry in Aldeburgh

    Three years ago, I was lucky enough to be selected for the  Aldeburgh Eight Advanced Poetry Seminar, organised by the now, very sadly, discontinued Poetry Trust.  I had an amazing time as an Aldeburgh Eight Poet with a free festival pass – which, for me,  felt like being a child allowed to run amok in Read more

  • Circles and Wildflowers

    Circles and Wildflowers

    I’m really enjoying writing poems for ‘Frames of Reference’, part of the public art programme for King’s Gate, Amesbury, commissioned by Ginkgo Projects and funded by Bloor Homes. I’m one of six Wiltshire-based artists who’ve been given a Local Artist Bursary for this project.  You can read about some of the other artists and see Read more

  • ‘To Bring Me Luck’ – new poem

    ‘To Bring Me Luck’ – new poem

    A new poem of mine was commended in the Poetry Society’s Stanza competition, a yearly event for people who are both members of  the Poetry Society and a Stanza (poetry groups run voluntarily by Society members).  As I’ve mentioned before, I organise the Trowbridge Stanza which meets on the first Saturday of every month at Drawing Read more