I am about to launch my book Voices of the Benares (Lapwing Publications,2014) at the Liverpool Poetry Cafe on Thursday 25th September.  Tickets are just £2/£3 from The Bluecoat Voices of the Benares book launch.   I have been doing so much work on the 100 Pictures – 100 Pages project – a Heritage Lottery Funded project (from Continue reading

I am thinking about words and experience.  I have been revisiting The Tyger by Blake, the first poem I remember seeing on a page and hearing in my head at the same moment.  It was 1969 and Lulu was singing Boom-Bang-a-Bang.  What was it from the 18th century that was able to speak so powerfully Continue reading

This is one of the poems I wrote for and read at the recent Mersey Care conference on Women as Peace-makers (7th March, Liverpool) for International Women’s day – and I will be reading at a Liverpool Women’s evening event at Leaf on Bold Street on Monday 24th March: I think the flowers that children Continue reading