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Welcome to my website, a place for me to share my poems with anyone who fancies turning up or stumbles in accidentally needing shelter. The rather cool photo above was taken by my husband Alex on a trip to Marseilles. I picked it because it echoes the theme of my first collection, To Know Bedrock. Plus I find it very clever he managed not to get his new camera wet in the process.

My second collection The Art of Egg, published by Two Ravens Press in 2015, is currently available only from me - see the Publications page - following Two Ravens' demise.

My debut collection of poetry To Know Bedrock is available to buy direct at www.pindroppress.com. Just click on my name in the menu 'Pindrop Poets', scroll to the bottom of the page and click to order. If for some reason you are unable to order a copy, let me know and I'll sort you out.

Launch of The Art of Egg at The Project Cafe, Glasgow, on 10 June 2015

Launch of To Know Bedrock at Phoenix Artist Club, London, on 15 November 2011

News

* Delighted to learn that my poem The Lean Years has won 1st prize in The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2018

* And that my poem Song for the Cevennes has been highly commended in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2018

* Abri Creative Writing has just put the finishing touches to its program of writing retreats for 2019 in the south of France, details here.

Reading at the Poetry On The Lake festival in Orta, Italy, in October 2016 - a weekend of poetic discovery and limoncello.