Obviously, the poetry I write. That's the reason I put the site together. If you like, a vanity project. But there are articles with my opinions, about why I write, and some discussion about traditional poetry form and structure. 

In addition, for most of the poems, I've included the originals, at least as far back as I have them. If I've edited the poem since then, you get to see how I have re-edited them (usually fixing technical faults, finding better words, preferably with alliteration. That last is part of what makes the poems come alive for me.) you'll find a link to each original at the bottom of the page (if there have been significant edits.)

There's also a link to any notes I've made about the poem - what I remember of its creation, some background, especially around some of the larger projects, etc: Things I hope people might find interesting. If there's no link, I have nothing beyond the poem to say! Also, how and why it now differs from the original - you read this bit in conjunction with the update and the original. Unfortunately WordPress doesn't allow me to use colour within particular texts, so I've had to resort to Bold/Italics and Strikethrough to highlight those areas.

I hope you find the poems interesting. Read the rest if that takes your fancy too.

I started editing and updating a few years back, with the aim of putting everything into a photo book, using appropriate photos from my collection and overlaying the poems and any thoughts. But the sheer amount of poetry I had written soon started to make that an expensive project, and Apple had shut down their photo-book option, which I had used before. Alternatives that I looked at seemed less flexible.

So then I turned it into an e-book project, which I still keep going. Bu a friend of mine, Janelle, is a skilled journalist and put her skills to use with a blog about the trips she and her family make, using WordPress. So I took her example and started this one, after practicing on a gardening blog which never got off the ground. But playing with it helped to learn how to use this. Better editing tools would be helpful. In addition, our parish website runs on WordPress, and I've done a sub-site on it tho help our musicians, so I've had a bit of training over the past few years.