16 Days of Action – Day 13 This is the other poem in the sequence that I don’t usually read out loud. I wrote this at Treloyhan Manor Hotel, in St Ives. I was tutoring a residential there with the…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #Day11
EDIT *Apologies – for some reason this post didn’t publish automatically yesterday. Instead it went to my draft folder and sat there!* Day 11 I wrote this in a temper, in a rush, in one go. I think this is…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #Day10
Day 10 Much of the information for this poem comes from https://medicalnewstoday.com and www.lenstore.co.uk When I was writing this poem, I googled ‘black eye’ and ‘what causes a black eye’ and ‘facts about eyes’. I knew what caused a black…
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
A quick interruption of the 16 Days of Activism posts I’ve been doing for some happier news. My book The Art of Falling was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize yesterday. The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is awarded to a…
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…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence
I wanted to take part in this last year – but by the time I realised it was happening, half of the 16 days had gone. It seemed important to start at the beginning, to take part all the way…
Sunday Poem – Stephanie Green
Today it feels much longer than a week since I updated my blog – maybe because it has been a really exciting week. First of all I did my first public reading from my new collection. Although I did read…
Launches for The Art of Falling
Below are details of three launches for The Art of Falling. It would be great to see you at one, two or even all three if you are feeling particularly keen! The first official reading from The Art of Falling…
