For a long time, I wrote a poem every day. It was my way of grounding myself; breathing was easier after writing a poem. When, for whatever reason, a day passes when I haven't written a poem, the distress is palpable; I'm a wolf pacing a boundary fence. No matter what's been going on in… Continue reading Going Home To Poetry
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My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 6 – Framed John Kenn Mortensen Illustration
Back in 2013, my youngest brother gifted me Sticky Monsters by John Kenn Mortensen, a brilliant Danish artist who draws monsters on yellow Post-it notes. When I moved to Sweden, I took almost all of my books (something I'd live to regret), including this one. I was forever flicking through it, obsessing over Kenn's meticulous… Continue reading My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 6 – Framed John Kenn Mortensen Illustration
My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 5 – Moose Tooth
A few years ago, a friend messaged me on Facebook that someone on the site was selling 700 Swedish moose teeth. There wasn't a set price - they were looking for offers - and I think I put forward £120 or something like that. I didn't know exactly what I'd do with hundreds of teeth,… Continue reading My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 5 – Moose Tooth
My Neighbour Put A Plastic Bird Of Prey On The Wall
I'm not doing excellently, but I won't write at length about it because I'm in a neurodivergent burnout and limiting my screen time. Even as I type this, my eyes are doing strange things, and I keep wanting to look away from my laptop. Last night, I booked a train ticket so I could get… Continue reading My Neighbour Put A Plastic Bird Of Prey On The Wall
My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 4 – Postcard From Iceland
I sent this postcard to my family in England during the summer of 2011 when I was in Iceland for three months as a conservation volunteer. Somehow, it's ended up back with me and lives on the fridge with a Jólakötturinn magnet made by my friend Giorgia of Litla Keramus. On the back, I wrote… Continue reading My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 4 – Postcard From Iceland
My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 3 – A Narwhal Tusk Letter Opener
Some years ago, shortly after I'd released my spoken word album Arctic Fever with Crown of Asteria, I was contacted by an intriguing individual living on Baffin Island called Nafre. He wanted me to know how much he'd enjoyed my poem Beluga and how authentic it felt. It was, and remains to be, one of… Continue reading My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects: 3 – A Narwhal Tusk Letter Opener
My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects : 1 – Iron Troll Cross
I’ve been thinking about objects a lot lately. (I’ve been obsessing over one object in particular, actually, an old ship beam which went on to have a third life as an execution block.) I’m fascinated by the things that populate our lives; I think most of us probably are to some extent, so I thought… Continue reading My Wyrd Life In 100 Objects : 1 – Iron Troll Cross
100 GOOD THINGS FROM 2024
Happy New Year, all. I hope 2025 has been kind to you thus far. I wasn't going to write this list because 2024 was mostly really shit. There's much of it that I can hardly even remember, thanks to being catastrophically burnt out and grieving from living with undiagnosed ADHD and Autism for 38 years… Continue reading 100 GOOD THINGS FROM 2024
An (Almost) Year End Walk
The day after Boxing Day (which should be renamed Bloodlust Day due to the number of redcoats roughing up the countryside and slaughtering foxes despite the 2004 ban) was foggy. Ordinarily, this weather would have drawn me out with my camera, clothes pulled on over the top of my pyjamas, teeth unbrushed, fast unbroken so… Continue reading An (Almost) Year End Walk
Some Seasonal Reading
This was supposed to be an extensive write-up, posted well before Christmas. I wanted to write a merry, celebratory post about some of the most satisfying, illuminating, imaginative seasonal reads, which have made my life (and my winters) better for having been published. But, surprise, surprise, I haven't been doing all that well lately so… Continue reading Some Seasonal Reading
A Wyrd Of Her Own 