Poetry really helped me after my mental health crisis, and subsequent diagnoses of autism and ADHD. It is a great way to express emotions and the beauty with poems is that so much can be conveyed beautifully in so few words. It is no wonder that many great writers are poets.
I now lead creative writing workshops, predominantly poetry, at events nationwide, in person, online, as one to ones and in groups. So many attendees start sessions believing that they can’t write but by the end, they know that they are also poets, and are inspired to carry on writing beyond the workshops.
Please do contact me if you are interested in these workshops. If you would like to try your hand at poetry in the meantime, then I have created some prompts to get you started: Click here for prompts.
I hope that you enjoy this selection of my poetry. Many of my poems have won awards and have been published, so I do not have the freedom to post them all on the website. However, I do intend to publish an anthology in the near future.
Please Be Late
Why do we all try to fit into society?
As someone with ADHD, it can be so hard to be on time, so I wrote this poem to express my feeling that we should take time out every now and then. It was shortlisted in the Hammond House International Literary Award and published in the anthology entitled Time.
Spending Lenders
We Are All Being Monitored
Nowadays, we all use cards instead of cash and accumulate reward points, but this enables companies to monitor our spending and analyse our data. At any point, our liberty is compromised. This poem tackles the subject with a touch of humour.