The Dawntreader
This little publication arrived in the post lately, inside a poem of mine: Legend. Dawntreader is one of the magazines published by Indio Dreams Publishing; Savitri, Reach Poetry being the other two. It's edited by Dawn Bauling, a lady I feel I know, although we've never met. Indigo Dreams is an innovative small publisher - and guess what? - they are shortlisted for the Saboteur Awards, too. Legend We created a spiral of light around the Peace Stone: a short circular walk ret
Kevin Bateman's poetry events
Some time last year, I was approached by surrealist poet Kevin Bateman to take part in one of his open-air readings. I was intrigued. He was planning a gig at Merlin Forest and looking at his events on youtube, they all took place in locations which had either some mystical importance or must have been lying on a ley line. I could not take part the first time. Then, earlier this year, he surprised me, wanting to do a reading in Rostrevor Forest. I must agree, it is a magical
Women Aloud Mass reading
This happened on 11th March at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin. 80 woman writers came together from the north and south of Ireland. First a readathon, reading for five minutes each, all day. Then we went out to the Garden of Remembrance and performed a mass-reading, which, if you listen to it sounds a bit like the cacophony of a hen farm, but the joy of doing it surpassed anything I had expected. This collaboration, to celebrate women writers in the week of International W
