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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 Here you will find photographs, poems, a small selection of previously unpublished short fiction and a few examples of my illustrated poetry.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: 01-01-12 & 02-01-12 29 poems added to the Poetry & Prose pages. Featured Poem changed. 1 monologue added to the Poetry & Prose pages. 1 poem added to the Gothic Fish page. Featured poem: NEW YEAR’S DAY Trees wet and dripping the new day’s surly gloom as though all the trials and sorrows of the past years have gathered here to testify and blend their dismal shades of unremitting grey. By three o’ clock the dusk is creeping in and breeze high in the pines is fluttering the needles darkly clumped against the sky’s low stretch of dull-edged steel. Firework celebrations done, the dreary street deserted — no one comes or goes among the puddles and the litter, while overhead a plane drones on its way through narrow corridors of cloud. Dawn rose late and found no hint of sun — no watery soft gleam to cheer the ritual turning of the calendar — no glow of promise from a rising moon and now light fades some more and shrinks under a downpour — the first day so diminished, so near-done we draw the curtains, switch the widescreen on and lose ourselves in make-believe nostalgia. 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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