My dearest mother (Elin to her mother)
The other narrative voice in Elin’s Story (workng title), the novel I have been working on for 3 years. This is my heroine writing a letter to her mother.
Skytrap for the moon
Late one Gothenburg evening in July, over-head wires make a skytrap for the moon.
The Cherry Orchard NTLive – a review
Review of NTLive broadcast of London National Theatre’s production of The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov in a version by Andrew Upton. Dir: Howard Davies Star: Zoë Wanamaker
Water salamander – salamanders just wanna have fun
Collage of six photos of a water salamander swimming just below the surface of the water in a green pond.
The Moon in June behind driving clouds
The moon in June. A photograph of the full moon near midnight, shining disturbingly like the sun and with clouds driving across it.
It’s hard
Humorous nonsense poem playing with various senses of “sod” and other words and phrases in which “sod” is an element.
The River Rippled (Elin’s Story begins)
The beginning of Elin’s Story (workng title), the novel I have been working on for 3 years.
Bad timing (1938)
Bad timing (1938) Poem retelling a family story about my father and his father. Dad ran away from home to enlist in the army just in time for World War Two.