The more, the Maya

‘Describe impact of her words?/her work to my life../feelings of her readings!/lumps of unspoken words swelling my throat/her words articulated delivered/pricked my mind’s unformed ideas/shook establishment from complacent chairs/held steady eyes of...

Writing a book when you have a day job

Long before Songs of My Soul was conceived, I remember the living room floor at my mother’s house strewn with handwritten manuscripts, paperclips, highlighter pens, squiggles on note paper and lots of colour photos. It looked like a crazy unsolvable jigsaw ...
Conway Hall – a lively Poetry Book Fair

Conway Hall – a lively Poetry Book Fair

A short video in between me rushing around the stalls at the Poetry Book Fair..click the link below… Half-time at Conway Hall What a better way than to spend a Saturday afternoon in the centre of London on a bright, chilly Autumn day, in the company of poets and...
Kind words that keep a writer writing

Kind words that keep a writer writing

I had the delight to read the following words on Instagram recently by a warm and talented entrepreneur, and Founder of My Ebony Box Jenaitre Farquharson: ‘We believe very strongly in supporting phenomenal women and the work that they do, we have chosen to...