I've spent the last six weeks alternating between a state of anxiety and excitement. I guess you could call it nervous anticipation. The cause? My first ever feature as a spoken word artist at the Fresh Voices event as part of the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival. When Benjamin... Read more →

I've just had the most amazing weekend filled with spoken word goodness. It's all thanks to Benjamin Solah and the incredible team at Melbourne Spoken Word. They're worked their butts off to put together an incredible two and half weeks of events and workshops in and around Melbourne for 2019's... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the twenty-seventh week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

I have been so busy lately there has been no time to sit and be. This is not, in my mind, a good thing. The busyness has started to become a little frantic and addictive. It's been much easier to fill my time with doing than face the emotions lurking... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the twenty-sixth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

Making is about gestating and then giving birth to an idea. It's a creative act. But in the very moment of giving birth there is also a deep and abiding sense of loss. An impossible grief at shedding the thing which has sustained, nurtured and held you in place in... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the twenty-five week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the twenty-fourth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the twenty-third week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

You may have noticed a distinct lack of craft on the blog of late and a rather exponential increase in the writing of poetry. I do have rather a habit of diving headfirst into a new passion, sorely neglecting the old along the way. If I haven't been crafting, what... Read more →