Was thrilled to have my poem from #MamaAmazonica ‘Snow Leopard Woman’ included in @bbcradio3 Words and Music’ on Intoxication, Addiction & Ecstatic States. Available to listen for 26 days. Includes Nick Cave’s ‘Hand of God’, Anna Kavan, Kubla Khan, an Icaro curing song from Amazonian forest, Helen Dunmore, @bloodaxebooks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h56j

Well done for getting this far, past Christmas night, soon be over, thinking of anyone for whom it’s a trial. Anyone alone or in difficulty. Boxing Day is easier. One of my xmases led to my being a writer, it can be survived. My angel was a book called ‘Waterfalls of the World’

In that book was a photo of Angel Falls and soon I went there. The rest, as they say, is history. With Angel Falls came the Amazon rainforest and a lifelong obsession. It literally saved me. #Christmas #MamaAmazonica

5 years since published, #MamaAmazonica @bloodaxebooks still makes a best books of the year list! #TheWhiteReview has a capacious list, a generous read to see which books out this year recur, lovely surprise to see mine from 2017 picked by Deborah Smith, thank you so much! #ecopoetry #laurelprize #OndaatjePrize #RSL

https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/books-of-the-year-2023/