One of the most powerful things you can do as a poet, at an stage of your career, is to pause and look around. To undertake a a bit of a creative stocktake, if you will.

You see we don't write in a vacuum. Remember that quote from Anaïs Nin, 

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we a

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✨ This blog post is inspired by the content available in Empowered Beginning, an introduction (or re-introduction) to writing poetry. ✨

Let's be honest for a moment - Poetry is intimidating.

And I believe that is because when we first learn about poetry we are often reading it, not writing it.

As...

Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, I use the term ‘Rabbit Hole Poem’ to describe a common experience known to poets.

This is the phenomenon of sitting down to write on a certain topic, theme, style, or emotion and then realising that you have written, or are in t...

Advice for writing poetry for competitions, prizes, anthologies and group projects that have a theme or topic.

In recognition of my role as the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize judge in 2024, I'm going to be sharing a range of quick tips and tricks on my Instagram page. The aim is to help poets get...

Advice for writing poetry for competitions, prizes, anthologies and group projects that have a theme or topic.

In recognition of my role as the Martha Richardson Poetry Prize judge in 2024, I'm going to be sharing a range of quick tips and tricks on my Instagram page. The aim is to help poet...