New Book, New Look! Welcome to my new website! With the arrival of my second collection All The Men I Never Married, I thought it was about time I got myself a proper, grown up website. Thanks to Claire Steele…
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,…
When you expose a problem you pose a problem
The title of this blog comes from the book Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed. I made the mistake this week of posting in a public group about my disappointment that the local paper, the Evening Mail, failed in…
Sunday Poem – Kate Fox
It has been a strange week for me – the #metoo hashtag on social media has made me sad and angry and hopeful in an exhausting cycle.. Amongst all of this, I’ve had to get on with doing…
PhD Musings: The Imperfect Victim/Imperfect Perpetrator
As the stories have come out and are coming out about Harvey Weinstein and more and more women are speaking out, I’ve spent a lot of my time feeling sick, with feelings of nerves and anxiety. I haven’t quite been…
Sunday Poem – Helen Mort
I’ve not been to one school christmas concert this year. I’ve not played one christmas carol, or conducted a christmas carol. This is my first end-of-term where I am not a music teacher. It obviously feels very different – this…
