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5th April 2020
Cancer Journey, Coronavirus, Environmentalism, Labour, Mental Health, Poetry, Politics

Kill or Cure: Cancer & Coronavirus

  Well, be careful what you wish for. When in my last post I asked for 2020 to be a year of healing, little did I dream that the universe would respond in epic fashion. Now it’s two weeks into the UK lockdown, and like most people, I’m still adjusting to the dystopian world we find ourselves in.  An invisible…

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31st December 2014
Environmentalism, Israel-Palestine, Mental Health, Novels, Politics

2015: The year of living philosophically?

Farewell 2014, but may your turning tides sweep us between the icebergs and whirlpools of political despair and environmental collapse, toward the hard-won shores of a fairer world. For though global disasters and injustices only seemed to intensify this year – climate change, Syria bleeding into Iraq, Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza, Ebola, Boko Haram, racist executions on the streets…

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25th June 2012
Iceland 2012, Novels

A Small State in Hot Water

          To conclude my travel research for my second novel, Astra, I visited Iceland for a week. Astra is set in Mesopotamia in a new nation called Is-Land, a small state formed in the aftermath of a global environmental and economic collapse (we all know it’s coming, don’t we?).  In Icelandic, Iceland is called Ísland, but…

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