poetry

Sometimes i write poetry, sometimes I illustrate poems

October 19, 2018

Engaging with internet douches

You know the thing –  someone posts something on social media (ie facebook) and there is a good discussion going, then that one person (the Douche) […]
September 10, 2018

The Year of Finishing Projects

I’ve been doing So. Much. Stuff. Since I last blogged! Writing Most of my time has been spent on writing. I finished writing up two instructional […]
August 17, 2015

The Lady of Shalott part three

Everybody’s favorite verse, the bit with “The curse has come upon me” in it! I wonder who cursed her.   Part III A bow-shot from her […]
August 15, 2015

The Lady of Shalott – Alfred Lord Tennyson

I had a bit of fun doing an illustration for each line of this magnificent poem. Red watersoluble ink on paper with watercolour. Here is the […]
August 15, 2015

The Lady of Shalott part two

This is second lot of illustrations I’ve done for the Lady of Shalott. (One day I might even learn to spell Shalott….) Part II No time […]
December 6, 2013

My Top 100 Books

I’ve been reading those ‘top books of all time’ lists and they always stick in Dickens and James Joyce and books that are unreadable and not […]