Blog Posts
EMPIRES OF CLAY LAUNCH
The launch of my first full poetry collection Empires of Clay began dramatically with a text from my publisher Jan Fortune of Cinnamon Press to say that she had been knocked over at York train station and had injured her leg. Fortunately she wasn’t badly hurt but she would be unable to compere the…
Our Treasures
As part of my role as Beam’s lead artist for Altofts Festival In A Day, I was asked to write bespoke poems for a trail of the village of Altofts. This took place on 24th September 2016. Over the summer, I spoke to people from the community and listened carefully before crafting poems from their…
Almost All About Alice
Last Tuesday was all about Alice. The drop in was due to start at 10 am but Peter from the Morley History Society – based in Morley market – arrived about 9.15. He presented me with a pencil in a sealed plastic bag. Looking closely at the inscription, I realised what it was. In 1900, during…
Her Story Coming To Life
Last week I wrote a guest blog for the Leeds Inspired website about what we uncovered at the Alice In Bloomers research day that was held in Morley Library with Morley Community Archives. Do visit the blog to share our findings and, if you’re interested, come along to the discussion drop in or writing workshop which…