When I was around 16 years old my parents took me to Montmartre. I remember it all very vividly and for me, with my echo chamber of a nothingness mind, […]
Does that make me crazy?
I often feel I might be mad. I try to work and live my life as an effective, empathic, caring, knowledgeable, wise nurse, parent, partner and friend, but there are times when […]
To brace the weight, you must have hope.
I am Tom, I am a male nurse, I am a poet, and I am often lost. During my masters at Canterbury Christ Church University, I was diagnosed with Dyslexia. […]
The patron and the colour Blue
On the eve of developing the final installation on my amazing and challenging doctoral journey. The bridge I find myself at now is that of putting together the final links. […]
The Trinity born again,
Recently I have had the wonderful chance to refine, rethink and present another small arts project. This one is called ‘the hermit to the trinity’ and is the central themes […]
Wisdom and stillness
Sidhartha or Vasudeva? What do we mean when we use words like potential, value, purpose, creative and individual? Where are the spaces of freedom for those who know the realities […]
Get out of Jail Free Card
So just imagine for a second that society was a conscious prison of oppression. A place where alternatives were quietly but actively oppressed. Where control was centrally driven through fear […]
The Creative Heart
Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with […]
Cris de coeur
This image means something so much more than it is possible to express. Imagine as a new artist and poet building on a silk thread of confidence. That’s so important […]
Montage of poetry and affection,
There’s a video of X-Ray Spex performing Identity that sticks in my mind. The video is live footage, and described on YouTube as 1978 Revolver Out-Take. The first time I saw it I […]