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  • Haunt Shortlist, Altofts Lit Fest In A Day, Panel Discussion and Performance

    I have some big news. Haunt has been shortlisted for the saboteurawards.org  and the site is open to votes now. My poetry pamphlet Echolocation, Karen Dennison’s Blueshift and both my poetry publishers Mother’s Milk and Cinnamon Press were also longlisted.  Huge thanks to any of you who nominated any of the wonderful projects I’ve been involved with. You…

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  • Saboteur Awards Nomination for ‘Echolocation’ and other project and Dragon’s Den style novel pitching

    Regular readers will have noticed that there has been a sizable gap in the weekly mothering blogs.  I can’t really apologise as the reasons are mostly exciting professional ones but I can promise a piece on the topic of religious mother soon.  In the meantime I thought I’d fill you in on some of the…

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  • Forthcoming Performances and Readings

    After a hectic literature festival season, I’m excited to have a flurry of performances and readings coming up.  My last was at Headingley Library on 8th October as part of the Headingley Festival of Ideas – a lovely event that gave a good taster of each poet’s work.  It was wonderful to be performing with…

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  • ‘Passionate Words On The Wing’

    ‘Moving honest films’.  ‘Loved the variety and the uniqueness of each voice and the imagery in films, ‘Nice to have lots of different atmospheres created in a night.’  ‘The energy, passion and enthusiasm of the poets was so exciting.’ These were just some of the comments collected at the ‘Words in Motion’ events in Bristol…

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