I’ve been writing poetry (of a sort) since childhood, but it wasn’t until I was approaching my half century that I ‘came out’ as a poet.

This was as a result of joining an Arvon course at Lumb Bank in Yorkshire, where I gained the confidence to send some of my poems off to the Envoi Poetry Competition and won first prize for my poem Something Like a Stone.

This poem (and a few others) can be seen on my page on the Poetrypf website, founded and edited by the talented and energetic Anne Stewart

Anne is also editor of the SecondLightLive web-site and serves on the Second Light Network Committee and as part-time administrator for the Network.

Here is another of my poems on the SecondLightLive web-site, also edited by Anne.

This is the picture that was used on the Programme for a poetry reading I did at the Midlands Arts Centre, with the poet and publisher of Flarestack poetry, Charles Johnson.

I’ve now added a category to my posts: Poem of the Week - click here to read the current poem - then scroll down to see the others. The first one was posted on 5th July 09 (our cat, Heidi, pushed her way onto the top of that post, so you’ll need to scroll down to find it).