Homework: #ClimateChange (Eco poem)

Would you be willing to take a pledge, Sprout beans and grow your own veg? Scorn fancy packaging – all that crap – Drink fresh water from a tap? Put your back into it, dig the soil, Read food labels, shun palm oil? Eat soya instead of juicy beef, Embrace...

Caught In The Web?

The headlines in a popular tabloid on a supermarket rack caught my eye this week. Are young people becoming addicted to the internet? Another news article referred to the internet as a ‘digital drug.’ As with each of my novels, the plot is...

Fall Descending – a poem

A recent walk in the nearby quarry with my dog reminded me of this poem I wrote last November, on a wetter, windier day.   Fall Descending   Young silver birch; leaves Small copper butterflies pinned Onto its branches. Behind, the quarry cliff drips,...