A poem inspired by me looking forward to the transition of Winter to Spring but still trying to live in the moment!

I've written a poem in response to an image of a lithograph at the wonderful Mary Evans Picture Library. It moved me. I suspect my strong feelings are also in part down to reading the wonderfully written (and vivid) Ian McGuire's North Water - giving the reader a true sense of the brutal, cold, cruelty of the bloody business of whale-killing in the 19th century. To read the rest of the poem, please head over to the Mary Evans Picture Library at https://www.maryevans.com/poetry.php?post_id=12664&view=poem&prv=poem

On a poetry course recently, I found myself saying these words to a fellow student. This was a revelation; up until that moment, I had no idea just how much I care for animals and how it all started when I was pet monitor at school!

Commissioned by the University of Derby to create a text piece to be on exhibition for the visit by Concrete Poet - Eugen Gomringer “the father of Concrete Poetry”. I took my inspiration from Stuart Mill’s ‘Homage to Wyndham Lewis’ and Alfred Korzybski’s statement “the map is not the territory; the word is not the thing”.

Truth is a play on how we read and perceive the meaning of words and how it constantly remains open in a state of flux.

Installation at Ayscoughfee Hall - a circular poem

Installation at Ayscoughfee Hall

Hand printed sacks with historical facts gathered from the journey of Field to Fork.

Proverbs in flour, University of the Arts, Berlin

Experiments with words on bread