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Scaredy Cat: a quadrille poem
Scaredy Cat: a quadrille poem
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The Walled Garden Gate is Open: a poem in free verse
The Walled Garden Gate is Open: a poem
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Dawn Comes Through an Open Window: a poem
Dawn Comes Through an Open Window: a poem
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Beware the Stare of the Midwich Cuckoos: senryu poetry
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Oh, Hunter’s Moon Dim Thy Light!: free verse poem
🩸 A Lament Beneath the Blood Moon In Oh, Hunter’s Moon Dim Thy Light, Lesley Scoble weaves a haunting protest against poaching beneath the spectral…
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The Shadow Man: a poem for world mental health day
The Shadow Man: a poem for world mental health day
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news and events
★★★★★
Melissa Lemay interviews me on Collaborature!
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“One memorable time was when the producer called a breakfast meeting at a street café in Fulham. At the cusp of a wintry dawn, we found ourselves waiting for the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau to arrive. We cracked it open at 8 am, and I remember it as one of the best collaborative meetings ever!”
working as a cartoonist for Channel 4 TV
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✨ Honoured to illustrate the book cover of Broken Rengay
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The book features a rebellious take on the traditional rengay form—thirty six poems that bend the rules with humour, raw emotion, and poetic synergy.
Published by Prolific Pulse Press
★★★★★
Something’s coming! Wait and see!
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A Crow: a tanka poem
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The Steam Cathedral: a free verse poem. A poem about the sounds and workings of a Victorian Pumping Engine.
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Transient May: a haibun. Mono no aware is a Japanese idiom for the wistful awareness of transience.

