Highly Commended in the Shepton Mallet International Open Poetry Competition judged by Mama Amazonica author Pascale Petit (February 2022), my poem ‘Toads During Lockdown’ is available to read here in the competition’s digital anthology.

In February my poem ‘Toads During Lockdown’ was Highly Commended in the Shepton Mallet Snowdrops Festival International Poetry Competition, whose given theme was “hope in nature” and where the judge was Mama Amazonica poet Pascale Petit. It was lovely to be able to...