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I hope you enjoy my new song ‘No Enemy Outside’.

If you enjoy it please take a moment to save on Spotify- every save helps the music to travel on and be recommended to more listeners. Thanks! 🙂

It’s inspired by my love of those lovely spiritual George Harrison songs he did after leaving The Beatles like ‘All Things Must Pass’. It’s a song of peace. It’s about how the deep, dark, distant origin of war is the imaginary idea that other humans are separate and different to us.

It’s a long, long journey to that beautiful country that exists before any sense of resentment or ‘othering’ begins- but you have to dream!

It’s also about a state of mind- a delicious feeling of letting go of resentment and anger. But also how the space that is left behind when anger is gone is scary- emptiness is both beautiful and scary.

The Castle of Um

My new book ‘The Castle of Um’ is out and about!

It’s a chapter book for 6 to 9 year olds.

It’s school story with a difference- sections set in the real world are in prose, dream sections are poetry.

“By day, Lily builds a castle out of cardboard.

By night, she builds a castle from dreams.”

Apart from the bits where a magic castle is built by flying clothes, I haven’t made much of this up. It’s all my own experiences at school, and lots of things I’ve seen over all these years working in schools.

I hope it will be first in a series set in ‘Bogwood School’…I have several more written. If this goes well, the others will reach the light of day.

I’ve been running school poetry workshops based on the book this term- all based around the theme of ‘finding your voice’, which is basically what the book’s about. please get in touch if you’d like to know more. 🙂

You can buy the book here:

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