I didn’t know you wrote poetry…

A landing page for the curious

Photo by Saad Chaudhry on Unsplash

I’ve written various things all my life — short stories, memoirs, flash fiction, scripts — but my first and last love is poetry. Mainly reading poetry, but also writing poetry. I would like to find an audience for my poetry, so will maintain this page as a landing page for online poems. I welcome all and any responses, so do please clap and comment.

First some news. I’m really pleased that my poem Forth Bridge & The Cantilever has been published in Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’ ekphrastic challenge newsletter and been given a ‘special mention’ by Emily Tee, editor and judge. The competition asked poets to respond to the following image, which fitted a poem I had already started on. Congratulations to Georgette Mouawad from Australia for her winning poem “Copper-bottomed”.

Artwork by Susie Wright

My first publication was in 2000 in the wonderfully named The Interpreter’s House who accepted Minding the Gap, which has being accosted in a tube station as its starting point.

(Actually, my very first publication was a sad little piece called something like ‘Not a Leaf, Not a Bird’ in an anthology my primary school put together a long time before the…