16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence – Day 6 The painting above is by a fabulous artist called Fran Riley. It hangs in my living room to remind me what I know. Poets have always turned to myth and…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #day5
One must have a mind of winter The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens is one of my favourite poems. It is a poem that has haunted me. I didn’t love it straight away – the first time I read it,…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #day4
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #day4 Whilst I was writing these poems, this sequence, once I realised that was what I was doing, I started to look around for other poets who had written about violence or trauma.…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence – Day 3
16 Days of Action – day 3 A few years ago – I think maybe the summer of 2014, I booked onto a residential poetry course with Ian Duhig and Ruth Padel at Ty Newydd. It was a great week…
16 Days of Action against Domestic Violence #day2
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence – Day 2 There is a beautiful poem by the poet C.P. Cavafy called ‘Body, Remember’ or sometimes ‘Remember, Body’ depending on the translation. You can find one translation of it here but…