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I was delighted to be chosen as overall winner of the 2009 Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition. My first collection, Dear Mr Asquith, was published by Smith/Doorstop Books in October 2010. Buy it online!
Born in Hertfordshire, I moved to West Yorkshire in the sixties, where I had three children and graduated from Leeds University. I went on to be a nurse, and later a medical book indexer. I was awarded a Diploma in Creative Writing by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011. I now live in Huddersfield with my poet husband, John Bosley, and a cat called Dora.
My poems are inspired by sad children and mad women, and the postwar generation of people damaged by poverty and ignorance. I have a special interest in writing about the Edwardian period and the Suffragettes, and am now dabbling in fiction, short and long.
Please explore this site! I am happy to give readings of my poetry, some of which you can read on the poems page.
This is me reading at Poets and Players, Manchester, on 12th February 2011: