Like many people, I can’t say that I’m not relieved to see the back of 2020! However, even amongst the global pandemic, the misery of lockdown and the loneliness of not seeing as much of friends and family as I…
The gap between one thing and another
I always find the gap between Christmas and New Year a strange one – in previous years, I don’t feel as if I noticed it. Or maybe I wished it away. This year I find I have learnt to appreciate…
Poetry And Everyday Sexism: Event 2
Last month, I created an audience-directed, choose-your-own-adventure reading of my thesis ‘Poetry and Everyday Sexism’. It was great fun, and sold out really quickly, and I promised various people I would run it again… So Poetry and Everyday Sexism No.2…
PhD Viva and Other Stuff
Viva! Those of you who are not on social media may not know that I passed my PhD viva last Wednesday, with ‘minor typographical amendments’. This means I was given an A4 list of typos to correct, and I have…
Poetry and Everyday Sexism
Evening all! It’s been a few weeks since I last blogged. I’ve been busy revising for my PhD viva – or more accurately, panicking about my PhD viva. Lots of people kept telling me that I should enjoy my viva,…
The Passing of a Year
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I optimistically posted that I would still be blogging, but just not as frequently. Such a lot has happened in that year – I now have a fourteen month old Ally,…
My New Life
This photo may do more to explain why I’ve been a bit quiet on here recently than lots of words can! My daughter Ally was born on the 24th May – two weeks early but weighing a very healthy 8…
35 Weeks and counting and poetry updates
It’s been a while since I blogged again but I’ve been busy getting more and more pregnant and trying to get as much of my PhD done as possible before the baby arrives. I’m now 35 weeks pregnant and officially…
Last Minute Place on St Ives residential
This is just to let followers know that a last minute place has come up on the residential poetry course that I run every year down in St Ives in Cornwall at the Treloyhan Manor Hotel. This course usually sells…
2019 News
I can’t believe the last time I blogged was on the 10th January and that a couple of months have whizzed by. I’m now 27 weeks pregnant – way over half way there. This is a photo of me and…
