You know those days when it's just not happening? I'm having one of those. I feel heavy, tired, and a fraction anxious because I have an MRI tomorrow. I'm also irritated because I had something cool planned for today's post celebrating International Women's Day. But not every day can be glorious, can it? I wanted… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #23 – I’m Having A ‘It’s Just Not Happening’ Day
Tag: Poetry
100 Days Of Blogging #15 – The Last Day Of Winter
I've only just realised that it's the last day of winter. That isn't like me. That isn't like me at all. Usually, I'm counting down the days with dread, wishing the cold season would just hang on and then some. But this winter has left me confused, worried and upset. I don't know what to… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #15 – The Last Day Of Winter
Hushed By The Kerbside – A Poem
The other day, I found a rabbit that had been killed by a car. I needed to write about it. Please forgive the formatting...Wordpress is being an arse and not formatting it how I had it laid out in the original document. *Sigh.* Hushed By The Kirbside Rabbit, what happened to your beautiful eye? The… Continue reading Hushed By The Kerbside – A Poem
Carry The Fire – Some Quotes For Those Who Write
I am in a peculiar and uncomfortable headspace at the moment and it's making writing poetry difficult. A few weeks ago, after a particularly rough writing day where I produced a poem that better identifies as drivel, I found myself overwhelmed by and then trapped with the idea that every poem I'd write from then… Continue reading Carry The Fire – Some Quotes For Those Who Write
Write Yourself Awake: Wyrd Creative Writing Prompts
How's your writing year going so far? Extremely fucking well I hope! My plan for what writing I'd like to get done this year has been shifted around and re-drafted in the past few days, as I found myself experiencing a stronger pull to the projects I wanted to work on in the second half… Continue reading Write Yourself Awake: Wyrd Creative Writing Prompts
May Your Hunger Guide You – Words For Creatives Going Forward (Part II)
“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”Austin Kleon If you're coming here after reading Part I of this… Continue reading May Your Hunger Guide You – Words For Creatives Going Forward (Part II)
The Darkest Days – Jack Frost
While researching into Jack Frost, I found out that if you didn't praise the art he left on the window panes, you'd have to face his wrath...which could involve being led astray in sub zero temperatures. This led me to create the following poem. It's a very rough first draft, so please bear with me!… Continue reading The Darkest Days – Jack Frost
The Darkest Days – Marzanna
Writing about the Slavic Pagan goddess Marzanna wasn't, for whatever reason, easy. Neither was capturing a portrait. It's happened a few times during the past weeks that things just haven't come together, no matter how hard I've tried. In theory, it should have been straightforward, she's the personification of my favourite season for crying out… Continue reading The Darkest Days – Marzanna
My Heart Is A Forest
I've made my book My Heart Is A Forest available as a PDF for just £1. If you're at home and have ran out of things to read, there's over 300 pages of poetry to keep you occupied. "A father kills an elusive pale fox and pays for the death with his sanity. The Barghest,… Continue reading My Heart Is A Forest
Last Rites : A Poem
Another teaser from my upcoming spoken word album. Made in collaboration with the inspirational Meghan Wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQR7u3-73A&fbclid=IwAR2TsnYVuOcZ3NNuhI6RazbkhQq8PANGHPHmwiSc7DF0glYRVbHbXOZrpro
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 