5 FEB 2019 · Bukit Tinggi is a city up in the mountains of southern Sumatra. I had a wonderful holiday there . . but travelling on the ancient public busses was a bone-jarring experience!

4 FEB 2019 · One of my favourite drama warm-up activities was to pass an object (eg an umbrella) around the circle and invite participants to explore playing with the object as something else, not as it was intended (eg the umbrella as a rifle, hockey stick, ear cleaner, javelin or . . . This poem was inspired by this play actiivity.

4 FEB 2019 · A simple poetry-writing prompt: what would like to be able to do?

4 FEB 2019

3 FEB 2019 · Lonesome George was the very last of his kind, an Abingdon Saddleback tortoise. He lived in the Galapagos. When he died in 2012, there were no more Abingdon Saddlebacks to be found anywhere in our world, and all you can do now is look at the photos of their massively magnificent shells.

3 FEB 2019 · A rhythmical poetic re-telling of John Burningham's delightful book, Mr Gumpy's Outing, in which an escalating number of animals hitch a ride on his boat with a comically catastrophic conclusion!

3 FEB 2019 · A rhythmical re-telling of the Biblical story with contemporary Asian references for anachronistic relevance!

17 DEC 2018 · Adventures of Isabel by Ogden Nash. A popular reciter's choice as it offers plenty of comic rhymes, a chance to provide three character voices, and who doesn't love a spunky heroine?