Between the lines and through the lens…
This poem is called Meditation Under the Yellow Sun and is the opening poem to my debut collection Eat the Storms which is 1 month old today. Happy Birthday to my little baby…
Read More…
Yesterday my poem Promises Made at Lombards came out in Ireland’s Neuro Logical Magazine. Paris, the late 1990’s, before the millennium, before I knew London, Amsterdam, the value of a basic bike or how cold it would be to live on a barge or had any idea that I would find my way back to […]
Read More…
Coming tomorrow at 5pm to a podcast platform near you episode 7 of Eat the Storms, The Poetry Podcast… You can find out more about each podcast episode and links to all the guests on the Eat the Storms page…
Read More…
I am so grateful to http://www.writing.ie who gave me the opportunity to share the story of building my dreams into poetic realities that took Eat the Storms from being penned to being published as my debut collection by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. Below is the link to the multifaceted Irish writer’s information and resource online […]
Read More…
Pictures capture the setting in silenceas if the silence has settled. Reflections capture the stillness in the wateras if to sink beneath could somehow be more soothingthan the reality rockingjust a fraction beyond the frame. Hope is as fragile as a pond of still water, a breath held as if we could hold back the […]
Read More…
At Home with the Hoglets Beginning with A Restricted View from Under the Hedge to Sticklebacks and on to The Cult of the Spiny Hog, along with a classic collection of inspirational writers, Mark Davidson and his poets are turning hoglets into must-have bookshelf desirables. Over a series of interviews I will ask the same […]
Read More…
Episode 6 of the Poetry Podcast Eat the Storms us now available on Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Pocketcasts, Apple Podcasts. I am joined by Julie Stevens who has a new collection called Quicksand, Sharon Larkin who has a new collection called Dualities, Steve Denehan who has a new collection coming soon called Days of falling Flesh […]
Read More…
At Home with the Hoglets Beginning with A Restricted View from Under the Hedge to Sticklebacks and on to The Cult of the Spiny Hog, along with a classic collection of inspirational writers, Mark Davidson and his poets are turning hoglets into must-have bookshelf desirables. Over a series of interviews I will ask the same […]
Read More…
Last month, 19th September to be precise, a group of fellow Hedgehog poets (all published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press), loving named Hoglets, gathered together in the far corners of their own farms and shared readings from their latest collections. Host Joe Williams introduced Zoe Siobhan Howarth Lowe (I have Grown Two hearts), Gaynor Kane […]
Read More…
You have heard me ramble on before about Black Bough Poetry and its creator Matthew M C Smith. The platform it creates, the collaboration of artists it gathers, its #TopTweetTuesday weekly poetry event that puts every other Tuesday tweet in the the shadows. You might also have seen how in love I am with Deep […]
Read More…