Tag: writing poetry
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16th April 2014
The Spaces In-between It’s almost Easter, the sun is shining and I am currently in a position very familiar to writers everywhere … I am in the space in-between – in-between my manuscripts being submitted and beginning again. Yes, my latest projects have flown the nest! The Box of Dreams, a fantasy/adventure for 9-12s, which I started…
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10th January 1914
My first poem of 2014 My poems are nearly always spontaneous things and my poetry muse can be fast and furious or go on vacation for months. Regardless of which, I set up a ‘Poems (insert year)’ folder every year and by the end of each year have normally amassed quite a few. This one came…
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21st September 2012
Some time in early July Fourteen years ago (and two months to be precise) I discovered I was pregnant. It was early days so I hadn’t had a scan and had no idea at this point that I was carrying a wee little boy. It was the beginning of something very special, but also the start of a very…