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A New Year
There’s much ahead this year including a new project – Liverpool Elegies (LE) – starting at the end of January. This is a North End Writers project, funded by Liverpool NHS Clinical Commissioning Group for which I’ll be Project Lead. It is a creative writing and arts project particularly for people who have had significant Continue reading
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Book Launch 25th Sept 2014
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
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Mind, Body and the In-Between
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
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The Shock of the Fall
The Costa Book of the year 2013, Nathan Filer’s novel opens with the disarmingly appealing phrase “I should say that I am not a nice person. Sometimes I try to be, but often I’m not.” This novel is the story of a young man who is being treated by his local Community Mental Health team Continue reading
About Me
I am a writer & poet based in Liverpool. My ninth poetry publication – Vestige (Maytree Press, 2023) is a collaboration with photographer, AJ. Wilkinson. A recipient of 2021 Saboteur Award & a MaxLiteracy Award I am a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Chester.
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