EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

MATERNAL IMPRESSION

Poetry Pamphlet

(Against the Grain)

Published March 2021

CAN IT BE ABOUT ME?

Poetry for children  

(Circle Time Press)

Republished Sept 2019

THE GIRL IS SMILING

Poetry collection

(Circle Time Press)

Published Feb 2012

A LIFE IN THE YEAR OF... POETRY AT HIGHFIELD

School poetry anthology

(Circle Time Press)

Published Oct 2015

WYOMING TRAIL

Novel

(Granta)

Published May 1998

APRIL 2024



11 April

MOTH POETRY PRIZE 2023

Winners announced

Cheryl commended



Sunday 28 April 6-7pm BST

RED DOOR POETS

Online reading

Free admission. Book via Eventbrite




JUNE 2024


Tue 11th June 7.30pm

POETRY AT THE MUSIC ROOM:

All Saints Sessions: After you, Mr. Ryder – exploration of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled, with musician Alastair Gavin


Details to follow

POETRY COLLECTIONS


   •    Maternal Impression (Against the Grain Press 2021)

   •    The Corona Collection (Pop Up Projects/Circle Time Press 2020)

   •    The Girl is Smiling Circle Time Press 2012

   •    Can It Be About Me? Illustrated by Ros Asquith (Frances Lincoln Publishers 2012)



POETRY ANTHOLOGIES


    •    Different Days (Grey Hen Press 2022)

    •    Poetry and Settled Status for All (Civic Leicester 2021)

    •    Rebel Talk – Climate Emergency Poems (XR Oxford 2021)

    •    Christmas at the Movies (Candlestick Press 2021)

    •    Black Lives Matter (Civic Leicester 2021)

    •    Reflected Light (Grey Hen Press 2021)

    •    Some Cannot Be Caught (The Emma Press 2018)

  •     Poems for the Planet (Avington Books Ltd 2019)

    •    National Poetry Day Anthology 2018 (Otter-Barry Books 2018)

   •    Songs For the Unsung (Grey Hen Press 2017)

•    Wonderland: Alice In Poetry (Macmillan 2016)

    •    Is This A Poem? (Bloomsbury 2016)

•    Watcher Of The Skies (Emma Press 2016)

   •    Her Wings of Glass (Second Light Publications 2014)

   •    a life in the year of... Poetry At Highfield Circle Time Press, 2015

   •    Anthology of Age Editor Sarah Hesketh The Emma Press January, 2015

   •    Homesickness and Exile Editors Rachel Piercey/Emma Wright,The Emma Press January, 2014

   •    A Poetic Primer for Love and Seduction: Naso was my Tutor

        Editors Rachel Piercey/Emma Wright, The Emma Press, January 2014

   •    Her Wings of Glass Editors Myra Schneider, Penelope Shuttle and Dilys Wood, Second Light Publications 2014       

   •    Heavenly Bodies: a constellation of poetry Editor Rebecca Bilkau, Beautiful Dragons 2014

   •    Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Competition 2013 Anthology

   •    Not Only The Dark: 160 poems on the theme of survival Editor Nicky Gould & Jo Field, Categorical Books 2011

   •    The Winners The Bridport Prize 2010

   •    Into the Empty Space New Gallery Books 1999               

   •    The Dybbuk of Delight Five Leaves Press 1995               

   •    Dancing the Tightrope  The Women’s Press 1987               

   •    Angels of Fire  Chatto & Windus 1986                    

   •    Purple & Green  Rivelin Grapheme Press 1985                 



LITERARY MAGAZINES


       British Journal of Psychiatry Autumn 2019

       Finished Creatures Issue 1 'Airborne' April 2019

      The Saint Ann's Review Spring 2018

  •    The Moth Spring 2018

  •    The Rialto Issue 86 2016

  •    SouthBank Poetry Issue 24 2016

  •    The Compass Nov 2015

  •    Manhattan Review Fall 2015

   •    Magma Issue 63 Autumn 2015

   •    Prairie Schooner Winter 2015 ed. Brian Turner - translations of poems by Bewketu Seyoum

   •    The Poetry Review Spring 2013

   •    Magma Issue 55 Spring 2013 ‘The Soul and the Machine’

  •    World Literature Today Sept 2012

   •    Artemis Poetry Magazine Issue 3 Nov 2009

   •    Long Poem Magazine Issue 1 Winter 2008/9



NOVEL


  •    Wyoming Trail Granta Books 1999



PLAYS


  •    Prison Baby - Hard Labour Theatre Co.  Etcetera Theatre 1988 One-woman play about pregnancy and                        confinement.

  •    Granny’s Bottom Drawer - Quicksilver Theatre for Children 1990.    

        Musical play for under-fives about memory loss and the relationship between the very old and the very young.  

  •    The Golly - Kings Head Theatre Islington 1990 (dir. Ian Rickson)

        Play about the fears and expectations of young couple expecting their first child.            

  •    Dramaturg on Heaven for Bristol Express Theatre Co 1991 by Sarah Aicher (dir. Andy Jordan)

  •    No. 3 Pied Piper Street  Quicksilver Theatre for Children in collaboration with Vocem Electric Voice Theatre. Play                                 exploring dreams and wish-fulfilment. National tour (Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London;  Gulbenkian Theatre, Newcastle; Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch; Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham) 1992-93            

  •    Hansel and Gretel  for Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood (dir. Peter Kinsey) 1994-95


                         


SHORT STORIES


   •    Such Games London Writers 2006, published October 2007     

   •    Making Faces LabLit 2007

   •    In Her Shoes Pulp.net 2006

   •    The Mountain Flower New Gallery Books 1999

   •    The Present  P.E.N. New Fiction I, Quartet Books 1984 



MEDIA


   •    A Bear Behind Children’s BBC TV series

   •    Poetry Pie CBeebies BBC TV series         


               


JOURNALS/CONFERENCE PAPERS


'The Psychodynamics of Writing' (Karnac Books, Routledge 2018)


‘In the Path of the Poet’ Writing on Location - special edition of the NAWE Writing in Education magazine, issue no. 54 Summer 2011, ISSN 1361-8539                      


‘Parenting Imperfection: unlocking meaning in the developing relationship between a father and his disabled son in Gianni Amelio’s The Keys To The House [Le Chiavi di Casa 2004]‘ The International Journal of Psychoanalysis Autumn 2011


‘Processing The Momentary’ Writing Routes (eds. Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson)  Jessica Kingsley Publishing 2011


‘Life-Writing The Future’, an adapted version of a paper presented at the Work of Life-Writing conference at Kings College London, 2009 King's College paper July 2009.pdf


‘Exchanging Words in the Community’ Magma Poetry 35, Summer 2006


‘The Making of a Group’ Writing Works (eds. Gillie Bolton, Victoria Field and Kate Thompson)  Jessica Kingsley Publishing 2006               


‘The Self as Source’ in The Self on the Page (eds. Celia Hunt and Fiona Sampson) Jessica Kingsley Publishing 1998

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