Over the past five years I have worked hard to turn my face to the light and to not venture into the darkness.
Category Archives: The Writing Process
Light
However bleak things are however much bleaker they might become, there is always light.
Living at the Edges
An hour spent watching the sea is a lesson in accepting change.
Bloody Amazing!
The unknown country of the future currently feels very disorientating.
Finding the Words
Getting there
A Requiem – A World Premiere
On Friday 15th February myself and the Alan Barnes Octet premiered our brand new collaboration, A Requiem, a brand new suite of music and poetry, commissioned by Grimsby Jazz Projects and supported with funding from Arts Council, England. Having worked on the poems from the autumn of 2017 to a final tweak the day before the premiere, I wasContinue reading “A Requiem – A World Premiere”
Season of Mists
After a turbulent and painful summer here’s hoping that the autumn brings some peace, calm and gentleness for all souls on this great blue planet.
Sometimes a week
Yet still we rise and still the sun comes up.
La Luna Launches Young Voices Project
Yesterday saw the launch of the La Luna Young Voices poetry project at Franklin College. This project provides an exciting opportunity for young writers to develop their writing craft both for performance and for publication. Later this year La Luna will be publishing an anthology of writing from the young people involved in this project.
Working Weeks
It’s a big week at Moon Towers, the imaginary house inside my head where I spend a lot more time writing and a lot less time ‘doing’ in the world. Moon Towers is an enormous, rambling old place with an orchard and a rose garden in what was once a ballroom. There’s a pile of old dogs sleeping on couches in a conservatory that is west facing so as to welcome the sunset each day. There is always a sandwich, always a coffee and never any laundry or washing up to do.
Josie Moon 