Working in theatre as a solo artist/Performance poet/playwright can be a lonely job. Since beginning this journey with Talawa back in 2003 as an… Read More »Finding your Community – Taking part in the Assitej 2014 World Conference of Theatre for Young Audiences in Warsaw, Poland
What is love? What does it smell like? Feel like? What sound does it make? These were just some of the questions explored today with… Read More »Love poetry
The images for my debut Poetry collection WEREWOLF CLUB RULES (out 14th August) have been coming in from illustrator/paper engineer and author John O’leary thick… Read More »You Look Like A Rainbow
Having spent the last week on a writing retreat with first Impressions… www.facebook.com/writersresidencies Its a pleasure to come straight back into work and sharing some new… Read More »My latest 3 pieces for young People
I have a bit of a thing for superheroes, growing up I greedily read Spider-man and Spawn comics and the relatively recent spate in superhero… Read More »Superheroes from play turn up in real life!!!
Paraphrasing Toni Morrison – Poets write good prose, they just cut up the lines. Many talk of “headspace” when writing – I have done myself.… Read More »2nd draft of play. Done. Poetry edits. Done. Now back to the novel.
Saw a copy of my poem in Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers. MAKE IT BIGGER EILEEN features in Green Glass Beads – Poems for Girls. Ed.… Read More »What do you write for?
Wonderful questions from John O’Leary today about clasps on Ruby Rings as he illustrates my poems for Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Werewolf Club Rules (out 14th August 2014) got… Read More »Poison rings and illustrating poetry
So I’m scared of leeches, mosi’s and blood sucking in general. Whilst at Khoa Sok National park we reluctantly prepared for a jungle trek- reluctantly… Read More »Reading Steve Tasane’s ‘Blood Donors’ Whilst trekking Leech infested rainforest
Last year I held a survey online and at schools I visited for the most popular title for my debut children’s poetry collection with Frances… Read More »Cover for my debut poetry collection