Guest Poet for December
Angelena has spent thirty-five years as an international training consultant, specialising in behavioural management and conflict resolution. She has a Masters in Social Science...
Sixth Mass Extinction
My previous blog took the story in Ancient Anchors up to the Scientific Revolution. In the fourth and last section of the book Gaia takes us on a journey up to modern day, charting the rise and fall of empires...
The Meaning of Life from the Ancients to the Scientific Revolution
In writing Ancient Anchors, my next challenge following the character of Gaia was to create a narrative that chronologically depicted the spread and development of ideas...
Creating Gaia for Ancient Anchors
As I explained in my last blog, Ancient Anchors tells the story of the Earth and her relationship with her inhabitants from the Big Bang to the modern day...
Ancient Anchors
This is a story: of evolution, of the earth, of Homo Sapiens, of organisms, ideas, trade, colonisation, wars, and those ideas and concepts that we as a species hang onto. But it’s also a story of how a germ of an idea evolved into my latest book, Ancient Anchors.
That Place
As I’ve grown older, the night-time has taken on as much life as daylight hours. Often throwing up creative moments, navigating the small hours is a rollercoaster of a journey.
Birthday Poem – Sixty
I performed this rap poem at my sixtieth birthday party at Fort Belan, Wales in 2005. It was published in The Buzzin Bards (Local Gems Press, 2019).
Love Rising
Oh, the yeasty smell from the pizza shop as I cycled past, en route to my Creative Writing MA course at Salford University, setting my artistic juices going; I penned this suggestive poem with bated breath.
Lesson from Lorraine
I read this poem at Lorraine’s funeral. Her imagined voice speaks to us, reflecting on her life as a polio survivor and disability activist. When I turned sixty, I felt distinctly mortal, realising I’d left the immortality of youth far behind.
Millenium Bug
As the clock displayed 00.01 am on 1st January 2000, we celebrated with our children, aged six, seven, nine and eleven. The feared computer bug never happened, but in 2020 a far more serious bug awaits our kids who are now adults.