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I am a writer of plays and poetry. My most recent play, 'King Sigbert at Wolferton', is set in 639AD in Wolferton, Norfolk, and follows the adventures of the fictional King Sigbert and his aide in their quest.

A poem inspired by a reading of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Battle of Maldon'. This poem was first published in my 'New and Selected Poems' (Peterloo, 2005)

I wrote this poem after queuing to see the Staffordshire Hoard.

'Embroidery in Anglo-Saxon England', an A5 book self-published by Elizabeth Norton in the 1990s. A catalogue record is available from the British Library, but the book is now out of print.
ISBN - 0 9521581 1 6.
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This poem was written in response to the discovery of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial by Anna Coburn.

These are poems that take inspiration from the Old English Elegies, transferring them to twenty-first century contexts. They have been previously published in various UK poetry magazines.

Sometime in the early 1970s, the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges visited his friend the poet (and later Borges' translator) Alistair Reid at St Andrews in Scotland. Various myths and legends have grown up around this visit in the oral tradition…