Merry Christmas, Yule, Midwinter etc…. I like to snug down and write in the winter and we’ve also created an indoor fire/story telling circle using LED lights and empty loo roll tubes – I hope you are all having an equally cosy time if you live in colder climes and a cool festive times if […]
Monday night I inflicted my childrens poetry on an audience in the Waterstones Cheltenham as part of the Villanelles series run by The Gloucester Poetry Society. This beautiful photo of the reading was taken by Kurt Schroeder Photography which is a challenge as I can’t really do flash photography and the light levels were poor! […]
I have created this Christmas Activity Booklet, they are all made at home by me and my husband – rock on printer and binding machine!!! It contains a craft activity tutorial, festive poetry, colouring in, a story and a puzzle. It is one of a series of booklets I am creating at the moment including […]
Just a reminder that I have a few things for sale this festive season! Starting with Love: A Stranger Dream which is a non-linear visual poem on identity presented as a colouring book. < iframe style=”width:120px;height:240px;” marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=GB&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=httpwwwsnellp-21&marketplace=amazon®ion=GB&placement=1530078490&asins=1530078490&linkId=&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true”> Then there is the audio which you can listen to for free or by […]
Last year I did an Advent painting challenge and produced a painting a day. The results are in this book along with a story-poem I have written to thread the pictures together. It is a tale that pierces right through to the heart of mythology and to our feelings of loss and renewal. There are […]
So a few years ago now I wrote a series of halloween poems for Jean who wanted something spooky but not scary and could only say spoogy as she was four or something. I then did a few more poems and typed it all up and did some illustrations the originals having been lost in […]
I’ve been reading around the blogs again and finding out stuff I probably should have already known. First off I knew that poetry, even ‘professionally’ published doesn’t sell in huge numbers. You are looking at about 500 copies a title, today I found out that it is basically the same number for picture books over […]
There’s a lovely little pusskin A hungry little cat Who is waking from a cosy, snuggled little nap The lovely little pusskin Likes a little pat But here comes the biscuits It’s time for her snack!
Last year I had a great time at the first Poetry Slam to be held in Cirencester. It was organised by the fab Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury and was lots of fun. Of course I did not score very high but that is not why I go to them – this was my third […]
Crash bang thump, A noise & what do I see? Little black and whites, staring at me!