About Me
Retirement in 2023, brought with it an opportunity to explore the more creative side of my inert talents. Having the ability to write creatively has enabled me to indulge my passion for writing about the need for social change.
“Contemporary society offers writers a panoply of opportunities for the socially conscious writer. The internet has expanded our world beyond expectations, beyond the confines of our front doors. Social media likewise. Blogs; journal articles; petitions; poems; prose; letters to the editor; to our MPs, even tweets, all help to raise the voice of the disempowered. Used wisely these catalysts have the potential to shock the world into action; to define the undefinable. It has the power to open up a discourse through which we can all share ideas, values and beliefs. It calls to action those who are voiceless. It makes the silence deafening.”
Taken from ‘Why I write’ – Creative Writing Heals volume 7.
I have embarked on a new project; perhaps one of the most important projects of my writing anthology to date. It is about the Aberfan disaster. This disaster which happened on 21st October 1966 in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales took the lives of 116 children and 28 adults, in what was to become known as one of the greatest tragedies in mining history, and it could so easily have been prevented.
I am writing a theatre script. The first, and I suspect the only one, I shall ever write. To accompany this I have written a pamphlet of poetry and prose. The script will feature a series of primarily dialogues and monologues designed to tell not only the tragic outcome but also the aftermath.
