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Welcome to my website! Here you will find photographs, poems, a small selection of previously unpublished short fiction and a few examples of my illustrated poetry. If you would like to leave a message or a comment you can use the comment forms beneath each of the photos in the Gallery, the Contact link or the Guestbook. I am happily married to writer and photographer Simon John Harvey. Site last updated: 29-01-12 1 poem added to the Guest Poets pages (Allan Smith) 1 poem added to the Modern page 5 poems added to the Gothic Fish page 1 short story added to the Poetry & Prose pages 24 poems added to the Poetry & Prose pages Featured Poem changed Featured poem: BUILT ON SAND For the Chagossian people* I see their island — there — mapped small among the blue — and of no signifcance to anyone until some eagle eye spotted it — decided on ownership. The predator flew down and stole their beaches — those long silver stretches of clean sand — thieved the palm-strung shadiness of days — darkened the clear horizon. Without pity the wings descended — no justice in the nature of the bird that came to kill — to dispossess and wipe away their simple traces. The dogs were first — domestic symbols of a settled life — and easy pickings for a raptor armed against the innocent. Defenceless in their canine trust their pets went willingly to slaughter. Then the islanders — ripped from their roots like weeds — their homeland swept free of its quiet history with little fuss — the tide forced to take what was left — human flotsam drifting... And thus the eagle made his ugly nest and preened bloody feathers — the sand he built on stained by what the elements have so-far failed to bleach away... Meanwhile, the Sea-God broods and bides his time. * Island of Shame by David Vine — an account of how the United States colluded with Britain in order to forcibly expel Diego Garcia's indigenous people — the Chagossians — and deport them to slums in Mauritius and the Seychelles so that their island could be used as a strategic US military base. There are a lot more poems and some short stories on the 'Poetry and Prose' and 'Poetry for Kids' pages. Just click the button on the main navigation bar. My poem Hope's Flame (see here) appears in SOUL FEATHERS — a poetry anthology published in February 2011 by Indigo Dreams Publishing Ltd to aid the work of Macmillan Cancer Support. The compilation contains the work of many internationally-known names including Carol Ann Duffy, Bob Dylan, Seamus Heaney, Maya Angelou, Benjamin Zephaniah, Leonard Cohen and Sharon Olds alongside both established and first time poets, all brought together in support of the cause. Based on the theme of Hope, and taking inspiration from lines written by Emily Dickinson — "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune -- without the words And never stops at all” — the poems in SOUL FEATHERS share, and compare, the common experience. The editors have done a superb job, and I am very proud to have a poem of mine in such good company. SOUL FEATHERS is available from www.indigodreamsbookshop.com Also from Central Books 0845 458 9910 ISBN 978-1-907401-36-7 Please buy this book, help Macmillan Cancer Support, and enjoy some wonderful poetry. (Just click on the image below)  Random image Poetry & ProseView more Poetry & Prose here |
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