A poem to mark Pride Month We have always been here. Both in fact and in fiction.Scattered in fragments through time. History is written by the victorFacts etched in stone by those in powerIs it any wonder that our past is missing? From The Satyricon’s Encolpius and GitonTo Heartstopper’s Charlie and NickLike the Emperor Hadrian…
June is Pride Month. Unofficially this has been the case since 1970, but it became official in 1999 thanks to a presidential proclamation by Bill Clinton, and it is marked every year by the global LGBTQIA+ community. We’ve had so much progress in achieving equality and inclusion over the last few decades, but our community…
Today is the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day. We’re failing people in the World of Accessibility. So here’s an intro to that world.
Depression is a hideous beast of a mental illness, even if you have medication to help. It makes you doubt every positive thing you’ve ever thought about yourself and cripples your self-worth. So, when you’re in a position where you have to sell yourself and promote your skills, knowledge, and services; depression is your worst enemy.
This month has been one of shocks and rejections. At the end of February, I received the news that I was going to be made redundant and I left my job in the middle of March and have been job hunting all the while. It’s not fun. Going from trying to buy a house (which…
East Midlands-based writer, Richard Kish, has this month released his second poetry collection called ‘30: A Year of Poems’. In 2022, the writer wrote a poem a day for a month resulting in the collection, July. 30: A Year of Poems is a spiritual successor with a poem written every day for an entire year…
How on earth do you measure a year? By writing a poetry collection with 366 poems apparently! 2024 was a rollercoaster for everyone.
My goal for 2023 did not happen. In fact, I hardly touched my second novel the entire year. In part this was I expect down to my continued struggles with depression, in part it was due to rehearsing for another show, in part it was because I found myself in a new and exciting relationship,…
It’s a new year and it’s time for me to set myself a new set of goals. But this time, I’ve decided to go a bit simpler and rather than giving myself five goals to complete, I’m giving myself one. It’s been an on-going goal for the last three years and I’ve just made so…
I don’t seem to be having much luck lately. 2020 was bad. 2021 was awful. Now 2022 has continued the train of bad years. There have been wonderful moments, and those moments have been truly wonderful, but more generally I’ve just had a really rubbish year. It started off so well and then just went…
