I am an experienced educational researcher and a published poet. Follow the links to find out about my work in education and research, to read or listen to my poetry, and to get details of my publications and projects.

I am married to Malcolm Rigg and this year we are celebrating being together for forty-one years; this is a poem I wrote for him a long time ago, which feels true still:

Song for St Valentine’s Night

Cover me over
with your bright body
come cover my body
with yours

as flesh covers bones
as moss covers stone
as earth covers dead
kissing-close
and heavily

and I will love you
and I will love you
as apple loves mouth
as velvet loves skin
as knifeblade loves whetstone
as new moon loves thief

come to me guilty
save for your answer
come in your gladrags
and down with me lie 

Please contact me to discuss possible commissions or creative collaborations for research and/or poetry.