Category: writing
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Catching Colours
A while ago I sent a fan mail to Edward at It’s Not Funny saying how impressed I was at the way he was approaching Parkinson’s advocacy. Little did I think we would wind up with a collaboration like this one. I am thrilled to have been involved in this and I hope we can together open…
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Boxes
To me, classification is, like religion, a purely human construct. An apple doesn’t know it is an artistic item in a still life but a scientific cypher when it falls ont a physicist. It is an apple. So, why do we insist on first classifying areas of knowledge and then waste energy either defending or…
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Sting
hurray!! My advance copy of Fair Acre Press’ latest ebook in their ingenious Maligned Species project has just plopped into my inbox….and there, on page 48 is my poem!!!! Oh yes, Pollie Math, published poet. That’s me tonight. I’m thrilled. The book is lovely, full of poems in praise (and otherwise) of the humble nettle. It’s only…