From the Wilfred Owen Room at The Clockhouse, The Hurst, Clinton, October 2021 Thankfully, the fields I look out on are not those in which battles were buried as the clay grew tall they are gently sloping hills, trees
Together we walk on the Common
I offer this poem for National Poetry Day, 7th October 2021 and for World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2021 Together We Walk on the Common Dark clouds threaten, rain not bombs
Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival – Remember the earth whose skin you are
On Tuesday 24th August 2021, Steve Walter and Roger West delivered original performances and soundscapes celebrating life on planet earth, as part of the Tunbridge Wells Poetry Festival – A video of Steve’s half of the show can be found here Remember
Dear Dylan…
Great to be part of this tribute anthology to Dylan Thomas…with ‘Skomer’ …and lovely words from his grand daughter Hannah Ellis Visit IndigoDreams And see the YouTube video clip Bless you Dylan…
Litter Hunt II
From this common land, Earth Day brings six large sacks of litter – discarded fragments collected piece by piece – extendable picking arms, click in weekday sunshine. Sacks stacked carefully beside a litter bin, a multitude of plastics, foil, metal
From moment to moment…
Even now, after over twenty years, there is a certain mystery about exactly what happened, and why, especially why. Seemingly out of nowhere, the world took on a certain magic, conjured coincidences, showed me new meaning in things, places, people,
Permission
The green light is given, pumping billions into the high-speed race for ballast and steel, ploughing through sunlit wood and glade. Destruction quantified; the track hacking a path into irreplaceable reserves, forests centuries old, systematically felled, remnants trailing in the
Blog – Electric Head…
Not a petrol head, although I do adore my 1250 Suzuki Bandit, but an electric head! Tomorrow, for the first time, I will become the owner of a completely electric car! I’m excited and amazed, and also sensing my first
Mental wellbeing and psychosis
Here’s a link to an interview with my brother (tbc) Visit: https://youtu.be/1FOPEvS6fqc
YouTube Videos
YouTube XXX1 – Chilling Rooms This is the thirty-first in a series of poems, and reflections, with the underlying themes of creativity, mental health and the environment, drawing on my experience of bipolar disorder. Many years ago, when I was
Tunbridge Wells Friends of the Earth Poetry & Prose Competition 2020
CLOSED – Wednesday 19th August 2020 Please enter your ECO-Poetry or ECO-Prose here: steve@makingconnectionsmatter.org Under 12 Results from earlier this year Friends of the Earth Tunbridge Wells are delighted to report that, as a first stage, a prize has been
COVID Phase II – A Beginning
COVID Phase II – A Beginning Watching the unfurling of Lockdown leaf by leaf a gradual opening +++ Tree catches fire in cool evening light uncertainty for a moment suspended +++ Brushing aside the clouds on a paling sky