New writing project and gig this weekend

I am begining to work on a new writing project this week, exploring the theme of sound scapes and visiting a range of different locations where I might find silence. Here is a section from an early poem that I have been working on:

The absence of sound is bell-shaped and green.

I’ve time to contemplate millions of insects

in the oak spreading above my head:

pupating, living and dying in the variegated shade.

A crow squawks. The bell ringers are ready.

I have just been up to the Lake District to visit tarns - including the man made Moss Eccles and another more remote location above Haweswater.

I am looking forward to a Some Girls Mothers’ event in Hebden this weekend - 1st August, 5pm at The Town Hall on Bridge St. It would be great to see some of my friends and all the writers in the book together for one evening. It promises to be a good gig!

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