Poetry and Plumbing

In Celebration of National Poetry Day 7th October 2021 It’s often strange where a poem can take you to in life as you craft it and this particular poem led to some fascinating facts that linked back to a poet.  As it’s National Poetry Day, it seemed...

Enrich Your Day

One of the exercises I invite my audiences  – as a guest speaker, but sometimes as a performance poet – and my clients to do is to smile from their toes. To get them out of their heads and back in touch with their bodies I remind them where they may be...

Laughter and Wellbeing

‘Laughter is the language of the soul!’ -Pablo Neruda I take my work as a comedy writer and performer seriously! Many hours of effort go into the punch line of a poem or a gag.  It’s also possible to kill that one line with the wrong timing or emphasis when it’s being...

Steering with Creativity

“Nothing is ever out of reach!”  I’ve started this blog with the last line of my poem Shout The Sun to establish my credentials as a creative doing it her way. The poem contains essential guidance to remind you of what’s really important and where you need to be to...

Performance Poetry

You Can’t Cook a Poem Like An Egg! Ingredients: * Words, freshly laid in your heart’s hearing ensure they’re free range not stopped by the glottal of mundane life * Freshly squeezed passion * An abundance of ideas * Emotions – a pint or two * Sprinkling of...

Why Businesses Need Creativity

Creativity.  It’s powerful, personal and present – in all of us.  Sadly, many of us leave behind the bold, vibrant, vital force that is creativity when we leave childhood. What often blocks us, leaving our creativity shut down, is that we have forgotten the...