How many years ago did I read this Jung: ‘Synchronicity An Acausal Connecting Principle’? I remember we shared that caravan by the stream in the valley beneath Llyn Mawr and a circle of standing stones. How we would listen to
The Laying of Hands
The shadow stretches from behind the eyes the length of the spine, peeling off the back of my head, a long-tailed reptile feeding from the base of my brain. People stare past my eyes they don’t look at me, they
The Moons of Jupiter
Outside, our breath rises, light’s focused through clear lenses, the magic of thick, polished glass, of mirrors. Tonight I see the moons of Jupiter: four tiny crescents lit by the sun in line, in orbit, the planet like a star.
War…
following the events of this summer …the few words I have to offer… War (7th July 2005) Today suddenly we have a taste of it, are caught by the fear, inflamed with fury at the killing. Real, instantly gathers new meaning. Guns
Winnie Deacon
drove ambulances during the first world war, her story, smudged in newsprint, suspended between the arms of commuters, red poppies. She found men over twice her age crying, shell-shocked, gassed. She gathered whole, dead and dismembered bodies into communal graves,
Wrecking (in memory of Nick Darke)
Cornwall. He collected, categorised, recorded everything offered up by the sea – lobster pots, lobster pot tags, buoys, flotsam and jetsam from across the Atlantic, even seed pods from the Amazon. He said the sea fortold what was to be:
Blog – Friday 26th February 2016
Disorientated all day…only by this evening do I feel more sane, more sober, inside, quiet – a sense of disbelief, what did I feel had really happened? Madness on the web… A strange night, imagining Revelation, as if I were
Blog – Thursday 25th February 2016
The day after the presentation. Some of the colour has gone, faded. And yet also a relief…what next? Yesterday The day of the conference, things are hotting up – we have a fire alarm at 6:40 – everybody out! The
Blog – Emotional Resilience – Dunchurch Park – 24th February 2016
Script of Presentation delivered to IOSH West Midlands Branch Emotional Resilience – ‘Managing Stress’ Making Connections Matter is my own personal brand, dating back to my first breakdown in 1997. It is not a company.. So, I’ve just rewritten the
Erofili – Armenistis – September 2015
The return And so the sea, the sea continues its conversation with the shore rock and sand, its heavy silence stretching across horizons continuous from here to home.
Riverhill June 2015
Riverhill (I) There is no river at Riverhill, the name comes from Saxon: ‘rither’. Riverhill (II) Listen to jackdaws chip at the edge of the breeze staccato laughter. Riverhill (III) I am no gardener and yet I love a garden
It’s a Spring Thing – Sankeys Friday 21st March 2014
On Friday 21st March there will be an evening of poetry and song in the function room at Sankeys in Tunbridge Wells (TN4 8AA). The evening will be a tribute to Ted Walter (1933-2012), a much loved and respected poet