To say the last few years have been overwhelming is a grandiose understatement. Mothers have been compartmentalized into roles and, in some cases, crushed under the weight of expectations as…
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Honoured to have my poem, The New School, about the Parkland school shooting, selected for not one, but two Poetry in Voice Anthologies. Firstly, it will appear in the Senior…
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After what feels like several years, I find myself outside, in the snow, building snowmen with my five year old (who is going on thirty). So much has happened since…
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Stories to be shared aloud: a positivity experiment, to combat all the negatives that are floating around. I have been reading classic fairytales for almost forty years, and have always been drawn…
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Next up, I will be performing in a revival of Molly Peacock‘s incredible one woman show, ‘The Simmering Verge‘ (called ‘stunning’ by the New York Times). The Shimmering Verge juxtaposes verse and…
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Next Thursday, February 13, I am honoured to be taking part in the POETRY in Union Event, which is modelled after a successful annual poetry reading in New York City.…
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It has been a whirlwind of a season, and I am so glad to say it has also been a fruitful one. I had an incredible experience travelling to Ireland for…
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I’ll be featuring at both the Clifden Arts Festival and the Shorelines Arts Festival next week in my beloved Ireland. One of the highlights for me presiding as the judge at…
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After last weeks shooting in Parkland, Florida, I penned ‘The New School,’ which was quickly published by Rattle, an American Literary Journal, and the response has been humbling. It has since…
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Over the last few years, I have had the honour of working with the prolific and brilliant Molly Peacock. Her editorship and friendship has brought so many gifts, I would be hard…
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