'To write a poem as a working-class woman is an act of courage, of resistance. To perform it is a revolution' – Joelle Tayor

“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”

"Think small. If you have a big mind, it will show itself." Richard Hugo

"I digress. Let’s live in digression. We have no other choices.", from the poem Haematology #1

“..and only they, children, excellent students of their own self worth, do know the value of their lives - from 'Outside St Dominic's Priory. Snapshot, July 2015'”