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In Praise of Nasty Women
a poem for the IWD ‘Be Bold For Change’ Conference, Life Rooms Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust – International Women’s Day 2017 Victoria Wood, Emily Bronte, Bernadette Devlin – we praise you Emmeline Pankhurst, Marlene Dietrich, Andrea Dworkin – we praise you Margaret Clitheroe, Mary Peters, Rosalind Franklin – we praise you Jodie Continue reading
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An interview with Phoebe Kiely
Phoebe Kiely is a young artist whose first show, following her graduation show in Manchester, was at The Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool from April to early June 2016. Following a LiNK placement (as… Source: An interview with Phoebe Kiely Continue reading
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Interviews with Artists
I am more interested in interviewing artists and other poets than being interviewed. However, I am most grateful to Liverpool-based poet, Maria Isakova Bennett for her recent interview with me tha… Source: Interviews with Artists Continue reading
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The Book As We Have Known It
This is my essay, selected as overall winner in the AHRC’s 10th Anniversary essay competition. In the early 1970s my family moved to a new house. On the low, built-in bookcases in the front room we found a number of volumes, books left by the previous occupant; it was as though to leave the shelves 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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