I have been silent for too long My soft tresses pulled taut in a bun of compliance complicit? These are the opening lines from my poem ‘Hashtag’ which won the Blue Knot Foundation Award in the Hunter Valley Grieve Project in 2018. The poem came to mind again when I read about Amanda Firenze’s outstanding project Paper […]
Chesil Beach
Look at moi! Standing – in my usual awkward pose – “on Chesil Beach”. Ian McEwan is my Literary crush so, unsurprisingly, a tear or ten escaped soon after this pic was snapped. I was similarly moved years ago when I discovered I had followed in McEwan’s footsteps when visiting Bruny Island in Tasmania. I […]