When I was nine years old I wrote a poem about a witch mixing up a potion made from ‘eyes of a toad, legs of a frog, rice with bats’ wings and germs from the fog.’Ever since I have loved writing, in any form but particularly poetry. My favourite author is W H Auden but I love many, including Elizabeth Bishop, Billy Collins, Stephen Spender, Thomas Hardy, and local poets Alan Baker, Kathy Bell and Adrian Buckner. I started this blog as part of a module at the University of Nottingham, where I studied the BA(Hons) degree in Creative and Professional Writing, achieving a First Class award. Some of my work has been published in the following anthologies:
Out of the fire (2011) Into the Aether (2012) and The art of Nottingham (2013) all Nottingham: Jubilee Press.
I was also a runner up in the D.H. Lawrence poetry competition 2014.
Two of my short stories were read out at the Broadway Nottingham’s ‘Mayhem’ festivals.
Please have a look at my posts and tell me if you like what you see.
Update: February 2019
How time flies. Life has taken me to many destinations, and just like every traveller on life’s journey, I have had several changes in direction. I became a teacher of GCSE English at a city college until the beginning of this year, and now I am a tutor of English on a one to one basis, as well as working full time in an office. I continue to write when I can, and I am currently re-drafting a children’s novel as well as a crime fiction novel and a collection of short stories. Watch this space!
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