From Uley to Owlpen

I’m working on a set of poems that have developed after a week spent in Uley and Owlpen.  I found well-worn tracks and holloways, the ruins of a medieval cloth industry built on wool, hills topped by Neolithic barrows, topped again by Iron Age hillforts, and once again by a smallpox isolation hospital, once again lost.  There’s still poverty.  There’s still wealth.  Here’s a faint … Continue reading From Uley to Owlpen

In which I have a poem on Radio 4

I’m on Radio 4!  This is truly thrilling for me! I was very lucky, alongside excellent poet Elisabeth Charis, to be part of a Writing West Midlands-brokered commission to write a poem for Radio 4’s ethical and religious discussion programme Something Understood. The programme’s theme was ‘Bread’, and it went out on Sunday 23 August, and if you’re so minded you can listen to it … Continue reading In which I have a poem on Radio 4