Teenage years

  • Daisy: 2nd place poem 1984 Surrey Advertiser

    Second place aged 16 in the Surrey Advertiser Poetry Competition! “A quiet poem for second place, clearly spaced and taking the eye very much at its own speed. There is no attempt to disturb the set tone by inserting anything which approaches the startling. I felt that Doina Cornell knew precisely what she was aiming […]

  • Tiger

    The tiger prowls, pacing back and forth across the cage, dreaming of freedom before this, this futile pacing back and forth, the hunk of meat glaring red in the bleak concrete desert Those staring pale faces are amusing as he paces back and forth, musing on freedom: chasing, killing, eating a mate to win, but […]