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We The Wild Ones Published Today!

We The Wild Ones is officially published today!

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It’s a collection of poems, stories and art inspired ‘The Wild’.
In the book, ‘Wild’ is wild nature but also the wild inside us- the freedom to think our own thoughts, dream our own dreams and ‘walk wherever wonder leads’.

And….the freedom to publish our own books exactly the way we want them!
I hope it’s a playful, uncompromising book in both form and content- hence the mix of stories, art and poems. There’s also no tedious blurb or quotes on the back- the title poem instead. I want you to be in the wild-otherworld of the book completely on every bit of every page.

It started from the need to re-print my story ‘High in the Old Oak Tree’, which is included, but there’s a lot lot more.

I’ve been spending the Summer at Fests and libraries performing stories and poems from it, planning workshops, and making up creative games based on the book. I’m all set to visit schools over the next school year to perform and run workshops based on the book. I’ve got quite a few lined up but would love more! If you work in a school and would like a visit please get in touch.

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Waggiest Tails Launch: Films!

It was the launch of ‘The Waggiest Tails’ last Saturday. It’s a lovely book of poems written by dogs. Poets Brian Moses and Roger Stevens gave the dogs a helping hand in writing the poems and I illustrated. The launch took place at Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare  and much fun was had by all- especially my dog Dixie as it was her birthday and she thought it was a big party for her.

I made some films of the performances. I adapted my song ‘What Would You Do if A Bear Was Chasing You’ for the occasion. I realised the names of dog breeds are often poetry in themselves…

Here’s Roger doing ‘Dancing Friends’ by Charlie The Chihuahua!

…and here’s Charlie doing his thing:

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Brian did Olive and Flo’s autobiographical poem ‘Security Dogs’, with a Cajon groove:

Olive and Flo  enjoyed the performance:

Security Dogs