PATINA – Released on 3 April, 2019

Eclectic. Charming. Punchy. Stylish. My poetry chapbook will be available next week, published by the gifted people at ‘the wind in the trees’.    Eloquent on manifold themes, the twenty-eight poems selected for this chapbook move with grace from the personal to the...

Matwaala in Spring

Last Spring I was in Bucharest, teaching at Translation Masterclasses and helping to smooth the final English text of contemporary Romanian short stories. This was the huge tome that was published – thanks to the work of 25 young Romanian authors whose stories were...

A Title Laden with Meanings

Another January rumination from me, this time on the wider meanings within the title ‘May We Borrow Your Country’. Read my blog at Linen Press Books. And don’t miss out on the launch of this anthology by The Whole Kahani on 26th January, hosted by...

Flash Fiction in Popshot Nostalgia Edition

I didn’t know this fragment of her personal history till my own sixteenth year. Delighted that my flash fiction ‘Surjit, the Sweet’ is in the Nostalgia issue of Popshot magazine. Just out now. The piece is a lightly fictionalised memoir of my grandmother in...