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crows, bears, big trees and griping

A poem in the latest Finished Creatures poetry mag edited by Jan Heritage.

To care is to be present to the griefs and burdens of our season.

To lament what has been lost.

It is a mourning. A recognition of absence.

Sulis and the consolations of ritual on the darkest day of the year

On influence and inspiration, source material and winning the Laurie Lee Prize 2022.

Exploring triplism and Iron Age hooded godlets as guardians of the Cotswolds

Exhibition, spoken word event and history walk exploring the local / global history of Stroudwater scarlet.

Rosmerta, the great provider, is a little known Celtic goddess and yet she is attested in iconography and statues from across the Gaulish world on both sides of the Rhine and in Britain, particularly in the south west and around what is now Gloucestershire.

An introduction to my long poem soundscape ‘Drowning Backwards’ with The Phonograph Collective, currently on show at the Severn Worlding exhibition, SVA in Stroud, UK. Curated by Patricia Brien.

Dive into a multitude of artworks exploring stories told from the water’s eye with a multimedia exhibition and an evening of processional performance and poetry at Robinson College Cambridge.

Rethinking rural space as a frontline, a threshold, not a margin. A place where country’s revolutionary underside can be revealed in all its unhinged, disobliging, furious magic.

The Outposted Project was a multidisciplinary arts project and platform for creativity and connection in a time of crisis.

Communitas [kɔmˈmuːnɪt̪äːs̠] is a Latin noun which refers to an unstructured community in which persons are equal … Plant Communitas considers plants and their active engagement in the human everyday, the imagination, medicinal and mystical traditions and the eco-political.

March at the Corinium Museum: nostalgia and revelation, following in the footsteps of Helen Cripps

A blog on my first visit to Corinium Museum as Poet in Residence

Cuda Ex Nihilo, poem currently showing at Invoking Absence, part of Site Festival 2021

Time to write and step up my game with support from the Arts Council

Hedgerow as idea, hedgerow as uncompromising. Hedgerow as radical practice.