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Peace poem
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
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That pay day feeling?
Did you hear the one about there ‘being no health without mental health’? It was supposed to be a serious Government pledge, just made meaningless by the government decision to cut funding to non-acute services (which includes mental health) by 1.8% (see: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/12/mental-health-funding-changes-lives-risk ) All the social pressures which lead to mental distress are on 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.
Burning Bright 