It's been a reflective couple of days moving a greenhouse from one plot on our allotment to another. Reflective because the act of de-glazing and re-glazing a flimsy aluminium structure require concentration. I had never before deconstructed and reformed a greenhouse and the task seemed...
Received another review for Werewolf Club Rules from the wonderful PoetryZone where students can upload their poems! "The joy of this collection is the author’s ability to paint pictures with words…" http://poetryzone.co.uk/tuc-reviews/ This follows hot on the heels of two other reviews here...
Photo: courtesy of The Poetry Society I'm currently doing a book signing tour for Werewolf Club Rules i was most recently at The Times and The Sundays Times Cheltenham Literature Festival and Banbury Literature Live and was asked both times about my journey as a...
It's been a full weekend of poem submissions and play editing and getting used to the idea that my debut collection is, as of friday 1st August, officially out in the world, I've been hugely grateful for the messages of support i've gained for the...
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 blockbusters that are fairly faithful to the genre's universe has got me terribly excited. Superheroes reflect what is best in humanity and...
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. Jacqueline Wilson and was in a huge bookshop in Malaysia. Couldn't resist having a flick through to find my poem ...
Snorkelling in deep water around Tatchai island- a beautiful white sanded place. We've both faced some deep water fears on this trip including some pretty hairy Speed Boat and Speed Catamaran trips across the Gulf of Thailand. Being purely pool swimmers the idea of being...
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