#bereavement.

Finding inspiration in an unexpected place.

Almost a year ago I wrote a blog, A day in the ‘glamorous’ life of an author

It was a tongue in cheek tale about a book launch I’d attended. My friend and mentor, Lisa Cherry, otherwise known as ‘the lovely Lisa’, had just published her second book, ‘The Brightness of Stars‘ and this was the first book launch I’d attended. My little allegorical story,‘…

Isn’t life funny!

  In my last blog I shared the three poems I’d written for my recent Open University assignment. What I didn’t mention was that I wasn’t very happy with the mark I received! The course book and Cd’s tell you that you must write a poem then keep on coming back to it and changing it time and time again. The funny thing is that the poem the tutor seemed to like best was the last one ‘A Silent Place’…