
Rejection and Acceptance
This is a photo of me back in 2005, when I was twenty-seven years old. I had finished writing my first book, The Poet's Wife (which I called In the Shade of the Orange Tree - this was later changed by the publisher) and my then-boyfriend-now-husband,…

Top Five Books of 2022
In no particular oder, here are my top five reads from this past year, books that have stayed with me and I know will do for some time. I have three fiction here, one non-fiction and a travelogue.
I'm not normally into anything vaguely…

Yours Sincerely: The Climate Letters
Over the summer, a wonderful poet called Linda France did a call out entitled 'Yours Sincerely: The Climate Letters.' This was an invitation to use our pens and imaginations and continue the powerful work that words can bring to the ongoing…

Norwich Writers Rebel and #WordsInTheWild
Inspired by the publication of my poem 'Colourless' with Writers Rebel back in July, along with a friend here in Norwich, we decided to set a local offshoot of Writers Rebel, a collective of writers and poets who could gather together in person…

Publication of new book: The Sky Within - A Memoir of Sleep
My fourth book (and first non-fiction offering), winner of the Backlash Press prize for non-fiction, has been published!
It's not very easy to describe how it makes me feel to finally see this book in print. I've been working on it physically…

Colourless
Last week I had a poem entitled Colourless published by Writers Rebel, a collective of writers under the Extinction Rebellion umbrella who believe in a duty to tell the truth about the climate emergency through the power of words and aim to…