Hello! Welcome to my first blog of 2022, a year that I hope brings us all hope, the best of health, rest after these gruelling times and new joy with our loved ones. A theme of recovery, strength we didn’t know we had, laughter and hope will run through my reading with Fiona Sinclair at Faversham Literary Festival’s Poetry Hub on Sat 19 February between 2.30 and 3.30pm. Fiona’s coming round here tomorrow to see what we can mix up and blend to entertain you all, so I’d better dig out my best. Fiona’s a great friend who knows how to pick her way through the rough and the smooth with wit and style. Feb 19 is going to be a great day of marvellous poetry – see you there!

Here we are together on a pilgrimage to Virginia Woolf’s place, Monk’s House