Moon Woman – Spoken Word Poem
Reading this poem aloud to a packed Parade Tower, at Kilkenny Castle was exhilarating! ‘Moon Woman’ was chosen by Jean O’Brien, to be part of this year’s Kilkenny Broadsheet and I got to perform at the launch on August 16th. So many people came up to talk to me afterwards, with a ‘Congratulations!’ or ‘I…
Russian Doll – Motherhood Poem
We’re sacrificing a Russian Doll, my husband says and I see her waist, the curve defining head and body – a body of coal.
My Poem – Milk – in New Welsh Review
As a teenager who dabbled in writing when no one was looking, I had a copy of The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook and picked out three top Welsh journals: New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Planet. I bought copies of these journals, flicked through them, a little hopelessly, then placed them on a bookshelf to…
Blossom – Spring Poem
‘Blossom’ is a poem for spring and its flyaway beauty. I was inspired to write it after reading a number of spring poems online, including Billy Collins’ ‘Today’, which I shared on Twitter. Although I have written about rain-drenched and sun-proud summers, flaring autumns and sparkling white winters, spring has been somewhat neglected . .…
Toffee Apple Fair – Childhood Poem
Candyfloss was the obvious choice, but I was no obvious child. I was as mild as the mown down grass in the school grounds where my legs tanned.
Shell – Poetry of Seashores
This shell could never have lived on a beach, its skin like the inside of coconut, curls, only mimics the movement of rock-pool water.
Leaf – A Poem for New Year
Take a leaf, walk its lifelines with your fingers. Make its shape with your hands, its perfect oval an alternate world.
Mistletoe Kisses – Christmas Poem
You said it was parasitic, feeding off trees, mimicking snow, rolled by the elves into crystal balls, masking the cold resistance of berry fists.
Winter Life – Snow Poem
Angel cold, the wet-nosed rain became a crochet shower – star-shaped, bon-bon powdery, tentative, childlike, shy and soft.