Planting Words
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My books
Click on the book covers to find out more about each book, or use
the links under the titles to treat yourself. Do you ever find yourself rushing through your days with no time to pause and look around you? Do you pay attention to the aroma of your coffee? Do you notice pigeons gulping from puddles? This book contains 365 'small stones' - bite-sized truffles of poetry celebrating the extraordinary in the everyday and the ordinary. It will remind you to slow down and engage with your own world, because right here and right now is where the wonder is.
A Year of Questions: How to slow down and fall in love with life (2007)
Watching too much trashy television, trying to find
something decent to eat in a motorway service station,
feeling awkward at dinner parties, putting off the hoovering...
is this what life is all about?
These everyday ordinary things happen to us all. This book helps us to discover what we can learn from them. It encourages us to wonder why we hate our boss, and why we keep spending too much money. It invites us to look at the ball of string between our ears and start to untangle it. It nudges us into slowing down, paying more attention, waking up. As well as the hoovering, life is also about seeing a vase of yellow tulips lit up from behind, making creamy potatoes au gratin for your family, sitting by the sea and watching the waves twinkle. `A Year of Questions' will help you to fall in love with your life all over again.
Living Things (2007) My first poetry collection. Read about frogs, jam, a man called Douglas Black, trainspotters, a small dog called Charlie, spiders, unrequited love, doughnuts and more.
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