The Year Turn Fablist

In order to halt or reverse some of the damage affecting Earth’s biosphere, there must be profound changes to the status quo. Humans can...

Why we need seasonal and regional stories and celebrations...

A Good Life - a consideration of purpose and ethics

My poem is based on an English fable collected in Northamptonshire and North East Yorkshire. I imagined the animal characters as actors in t

An ethereal tale of Winter's promise and Summer's lurking treachery.

A poem for the time of Imbolc, in early February, reflecting on the joy and loss that we feel in expecting Spring.

The gathering of the birds to choose a king is a poetic opportunity to use evocative collective nouns. Bird traits become personalities.

A summer story of sunshine and strawberries, sharing and stealing.

My retelling of a traditional English Cinderella story - A Magical Tale of May Merriment

A poem about how, when our daily lives have no meaningful connection to the Earth, we fail to care.

Here is my retelling of an old Somerset story of winter and wassailing

My version of an old Dartmoor tale is set on an imagined Samhain night when bonfires were lit and shape shifting wouldn't have been unlikely

Hope flying free Feared and fearsome, with talons to score and claw. Not hooded by faith or tinted or tainted by love but keen eyed and...

This poem is inspired by the right to roam movement and my own feelings of homesickness.