I was delighted to read some poems from ‘Star’ for Damien Donnelly’s Spotify podcast episode Christmas with Eat The Storms podcast. Damien is a sensitive host and creates a lovely positive ‘space’ around each poet. ideal Christmas listening.
Finlay James performs my poem
And my article for The Honest Ulsterman on what I learned from watching an actor perform my work.
On December 13th I was interviewed by Gary Raymond, host of BBC Radio Wales’s Arts Show
It was a pleasure to interviewed about my writing by poet, Taz Rahman as part of his long-running Just Another Poet series of conversations.
We talked about my poetry collection Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere and my shrot story collection A City Burning. Information about the books here
Being asked questions stimulates some thought! Most of the time I am writing, with a sense of purpose, yes, but not according to a theory. At some point it is certainly useful to be asked about genre, approach and so on. Reflecting aloud does provide insights and perspective that might otherwise be lacking.
You can read about Taz’s own work here
A pleasure to do two Winter Readings for Issue 12. The photograph of the broken and re-assembled Annunciation Window in Llanfair, Yr Wyddgrug (Church of Saint Mary, Mold) is by Prof Emerita Madeleine Gray.
Poetry Pause is run by Emma Baines, Philippa Davies and Jean Riley near Narberth, west Wales. In Episode 7 the focus is on Carol Ann Duffy and has a powerful sonnet from Mab Jones and one from me.
Thanks @AngelaGraham8 for beautiful 'An Irish Merchant Seaman' (1st published @TheOpenEar) as guest sonnet in latest episode. Read by @crofftwerdd. pic.twitter.com/VizrrKRzB9
— poetrypausepod (@poetrypause_) October 29, 2020