Blue Saxophone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781913432027)

These poems navigate a human life and cross the Earth, touching on love, loss of love, warzones, motherhood, art, nature, ageing, forgiveness: images both tender and sharp, and grounded in the everyday:

Smallbluemobilephone rings its dinky tune.

But it never rings. Where is it? Who can it be?

I scrabble in the bottom of my bag,

I fumble with the somany buttons

Dazzling sunny days, hot desert sands, the cool damp of ancient churches, a sterile hospital ward, and overstuffed handbags come together in Blue Saxophone.

An exploration of lost childhood, longing, love, sickness, healing, spirituality, social conflict, love of nature, art, music, social justice, sense of place and travel. The writing is elemental and sensory, inspired by personal experience,