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Freud & Poetry
I attended a thought-provoking event in the week – organised by the Centre for New and International Writing at the University of Liverpool. It was an evening concerned with the self in poetry, the subjective and the unconscious which was introduced by Professor Josh Cohen who articulated that strange relationship between poetry and psychology – Continue reading
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Frank Bidart
It’s a long time since I fell in love with a writer. I mean the real thing. Having to get every book and read and read , then read the biographical stuff alongside the work. I did it with Hermann Hesse and Francoise Sagan when I was 15, and D.H.Lawrence (don’t tell anyone…), Wallace Stevens, Continue reading
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Summer
It’s been a busy year so far full of work, family, studies and recent sadness. My mother-in-law, Mary Rowe, died on 10th June, aged 91 after some years living with vascular dementia. Mary always lived with family until her final week in hospital. When John and I were married 20 years ago Mary lived with Continue reading
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Changing titles and radio interviews
William Blake got me started with poetry when I was 6 so in honour of him I’ve changed the name of my blog to “Burning Bright” in the great hope that I will see a few angels in 2015 and be safe from the dark. At 6.50 am in Liverpool city centre this morning a 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 