The World of Stonehenge Exhibition at the British Museum. Visit 16.3.22

18th Mar 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

This huge, black room
lined with cases filled
with uplit remnants
of our past

2021 is over

3rd Jan 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

Warden Point Cumbersome yearcome to rest uponthis quiet beachat world’s end reachhere we meet under soft grey skiespebbles crackle underfoottender glands constrictmy throat the tide is awayreveals expanse of rippled claywhich, each daywashes new fossilsinto our consciousnessshark’s teeth, lobster tailsfishes’ vertebrae people cometo collect these lessonsfrom Father time iron whelk in my palmwho slithered in […]

What can it mean?

31st Dec 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

After a day full of tears yesterday, I got up and wrote a poem just-like-that this morning. It felt good. Half way through writing, my husband shouted from upstairs (where he is self-isolating with COVID) that there was a rainbow out the back. That changed the direction of my poem, and hopefully my week/year (yeah, […]

Sunday morning grey

5th Dec 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

This morning was so dull and grey. I felt compelled to document my morning, capturing some of the minutiae of my domestic life in all its glorious greyness. No glamour.

the cat

18th Nov 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

her yellow eyes
lined black
half-closed
glistening

Starlings in November

15th Nov 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I hadn’t noticed the starlings until the moment
they suddenly fall silent

‘She is the wild’ book launch

14th Nov 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Friday evening was a first for me. My first ever book launch! My friend Sally and I had discovered the perfect venue – a beautiful yurt near Canterbury called ‘The Quiet View’. Lizzie and John were perfect hosts, having set up the room in a beautiful circle – I immediately felt my nerves settle when […]

Nourish

2nd Nov 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

the trees are letting go their leaves nowscattered offeringsmyriad gifts of foodin delicious hues tomato, tangerine, limesaffron, honey, nut butter peppering the groundwith fallen lightharvest festivalreturned to earth. (Images taken at edibleculture, Faversham)