The Great Bear
Just so pleased to be working again with the ever-inventive Oversteps poet Rebecca Bilkau and Beautiful Dragons Press. This time we’re a nebulous constellation of poets writing about Heavenly Bodies. I have chosen to write about Ursa Major. Mostly because I knew I could actually identify it from the back garden. The Plough forms part of the Bear, and has been my stellar lodestone from … Continue reading The Great Bear
Happy Christmas!
A poem from a snowy Christmas, though I think all I’ll see this year is rain. I wrote it at my smallholding in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, a few years ago. I’d gone out on Christmas morning to let out the hens and feed the sheep after a night of snow. Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and a joyful, creative 2014! Snow … Continue reading Happy Christmas!
