Keeping myself smiling with gifts from me to me! Got a couple of new things in the post today which put a smile on my face. Retail therapy is kind of a joke… but kind of very real. This poetry book looks so good and is so beautiful to look at, I‘m very excited to read it!
Feeling rather emotional today. Yesterday I had the last of the mentoring sessions I was awarded with the wonderful Pascale. She has really challenged me to become my best poet-self. Her support, guidance and well-judged arse-kicking have been invaluable. Now I just need to finish my damn book (she wants it done by the end of August)!
pickTiger Girl is the poet's cherished half-Indian grandmother. It's a lucid dream of a collection, saturated with sensory detail. This makes the "difficult" parts of the book (species extinction, exploitation, animal torture) painful to read. PP observes and records. She does not judge. But her poems make us feel the wounds (inflicted on each other, other species, the planet) that need healing.
👆My poetry mentor.
I had a three-hour Zoom meeting with Pascale earlier this week, doing line-edits on my poems. It was nerve-wracking and exhausting but so helpful!
Now I'm to send her a bunch of new work in six weeks' time.
I have been awarded three months of poetry mentoring with Pascale Petit!
Part of me wants to cry with relief that *finally, something...* and another part wants to throw my phone in the back of the kitchen drawer and go and live in a tree.
Tiger Girl | 
