I started writing poetry in my teens; it was, needless to say, in the main, of the teenage -then student- angst variety. I only started writing it more seriously when I got to my fifties and started looking after my granddaughter Chloe. It was a time of reflection, of looking back at my life and wondering what it was all about! But I also looked at the present that I was in, and realised that it was not very satisfactory. So ... time and an opportunity to ‘cut myself a new path’.

Having reached a ‘certain age’, I find myself increasingly concerned with memory, transience and the passing of time. I still revisit the past in order to understand the present, but my identity, my many ‘selves’ and my relationship with what is beyond ‘me’ are recurring themes in my work.