Spider spider on the wall How very quickly you appear to crawl Legs in series spiked and barbed With fangs of poison you are armed Deadly to those tiny pray Injected, digested whilst they lay Spun in a cocoon of silk A late lunch of insect milk Spider spider on the wall What’s the eight […]
A few years back I launched The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry – I did this twice the first was for the ebook and the second time for the actual physical book. Here is my daughter reading parts of the collection. The book was initially written for her only and then I added a few […]
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! […]
The WigglyPet Press ie us went to the local comic book convention in Cheltenham. The True Believers Comicbook Festival. We took the baby yeti from The Little Book of Spoogy Poetry who was a little bit worried when it saw the pictures of itself! We made a new book stack out of an old storage […]
Tomorrow I will be at the Ok True Believers Comic Festival – I have 15 titles including the much loved Wiggly Pet Adventures, poetry zines and Winter’s Bloom. The new one which I am still binding into shape as we speak is my illustrated non-linear concrete/visual poem about identity – A Stranger Dream – of […]
Only a few days left of the Bristol Bizaar now! We are based at The Island in Bristol and there are some amazing things here – this is my stall complete with the story telling tree sans it’s normal poetry bees!
I am going to be taking part in the Market Under the Moon/Bristol Bizar’s Christmas Pop Up Shop at the Island in Bristol. I believe it is the old police station. It’s above an art gallery and will be there for 2 weeks. I’m taking poetry as well as craft things 🙂 Poetry wise there […]
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 am so so happy that the writer Becket responded to my tweet saying that my Haiku was perfect, he loves this particular poetry form, so it means a lot 🙂 Not to mention the excitement of being noticed by an author you like 🙂 I am also going to be reading The Little Book […]
This week has been hard work but amazing! Really amazing. Firstly I performed at Well Versed in Cheltenham on Wednesday – then Thursday I headed off to college to learn science writing and discovered there are things I am good at (though that whole spelling thing still evades me!). Then there was the Bristol Comic […]