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The Weight of Snow
Winner of the 2021 Saboteur Award in the best poetry pamphlet category – The Weight of Snow – published by Maytree Press at the end of February 2021 acknowledges a history of grief in my own family that started when my mother’s sister, Joan, was killed by a lorry at the age of 10. This 1950s childhood Continue reading
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Kinship – an essay
In our families we find the dramas of human frailty as well as love. We discover that loss and absence are sometimes more important than security, attentiveness and presence. Kinship, like love, reaches beyond the grave as the dead stay with us and families carry an inheritance of grief as well as the optimism Continue reading
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The Ghost Hospital
My pamphlet The Ghost Hospital — published by Maytree Press in 2019 — was shortlisted in the poetry pamphlet category of the Saboteur Awards 2020. What I hope for these poems is that they create a voice for those who are not listened to. I am interested in exploring the human voice in extremis — those Continue reading
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‘This Tilting Earth’
This Tilting Earth Jane Lovell Winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition (Mslexia/SEREN, 2019) REVIEW The axial tilt of the earth ensures seasonal change. The ‘tilt’ examined in Jane Lovell’s poetry suggests other kinds of change – the contest between humanity and Nature and the ever-present danger of the fall. This Tilting Earth is an 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 