Rising from Pavements (a shadorma reprise)

I decided to deconstruct and re-write this poem following racist attacks in which a Polish community centre in London and a Romanian shop in Norwich were vandalised after the vote to leave the EU. I posted the original poem last August, which was inspired by a photograph my husband took on a trip to Wroclav, […]

Footprints to the Past

A villanelle in response to imaginary garden with real toads – The Tuesday Platform   A simple flint tool left the world aghast, unearthed on a crumbling North Norfolk shore, led to fossilised footprints from the past.   Found on a coastline that’s receding fast in the Norfolk village of Happisburgh, a simple flint tool […]