EARTH DAY INVITE You’re warmly invited to the launch of GAIA. Being. Alive and Horizon 2040 – the beginning, on Earth Day, Saturday 22nd April at Sankeys’ upstairs function room Tunbridge Wells, from 7:30pm. Dear friends, yes it’s a launch
Wood Anemone
It’s April the sun is tender as it opens the gift of Spring…
Together we walk on the Common
I offer this poem for National Poetry Day, 7th October 2021 and for World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2021 Together We Walk on the Common Dark clouds threaten, rain not bombs
Dear Dylan…
Great to be part of this tribute anthology to Dylan Thomas…with ‘Skomer’ …and lovely words from his grand daughter Hannah Ellis Visit IndigoDreams And see the YouTube video clip Bless you Dylan…
From moment to moment…
Even now, after over twenty years, there is a certain mystery about exactly what happened, and why, especially why. Seemingly out of nowhere, the world took on a certain magic, conjured coincidences, showed me new meaning in things, places, people,
Mental wellbeing and psychosis
Here’s a link to an interview with my brother (tbc) Visit: https://youtu.be/1FOPEvS6fqc
YouTube Videos
YouTube XXX1 – Chilling Rooms This is the thirty-first in a series of poems, and reflections, with the underlying themes of creativity, mental health and the environment, drawing on my experience of bipolar disorder. Many years ago, when I was
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 WWF – Connect with Nature Over the last weeks, many of us have experienced stress, anxiety or isolation. But now that we can get back outdoors, we celebrate the positive impacts of nature on our
It is enough…
It is enough to sit, to think, to be to know your presence in the length of time that brought you here and to acknowledge your final passing… +++ Writing in Mum’s notebook Your words
Earth, Moon, Sky & Psychosis at 60! – Brighton Fringe 2020
Steve Walter, author and poet (first diagnosed with bipolar 23 years ago), is back, steering us through a good-humoured story of breakdown and recovery. If you’ve ever experienced mental ill-health, or know someone that has, and you care about the
Blog – Speaking at the University for Peace, Costa Rica, January 2019
University for Peace, Costa Rica, January 2019 It’s official, I read Gaia 2020 at The University for Peace. See the Times of Tunbridge Wells, dated Wednesday 9th January 2019. It was when we were finalizing arrangements for our trip to Costa
Voices – mental health survivors, carers, therapist, family and friends
Voices… tells the real-life stories of different people’s experiences of mental ill-health, from the point of view of sufferers and carers, family and friends spanning a range of ages and backgrounds, from mild depression to schizophrenia, from the younger woman