Micheline Mason

In my early twenties I wrote poetry all the time. It was very angst-ridden and intense and I did not show it to anyone. For some reason, I stopped once I had discovered Co-Counselling. It seemed much more useful to pour my heart out to another human being rather than a piece of paper. But in the last two years, with encouragement, I have started writing again, and this time it is different. It is coming from a creative place in which thoughts and ideas seem to be struggling to come out and be expressed – thoughts which are not easy to bring to the light of day any other way. This time I feel there might be other people who want to hear what is inside my head. I hope so.

I also love to illustrate these poems, and I have included one or two here. I have put a small collection of poems and drawings into a new book called ‘Let It Be Us’ which you can buy from this website: www.trafford.com

Here is the list of poems in 'Let It Be Us':

List of poems in Let it be Us

The following poems are downloadable and you are free to use them as you wish. The last one ‘Not Dead Yet’ was written for the launch of a new campaign led by disabled people to challenge the ‘Assisted Dying’ Bill put forward by Lord Joffe on the 12th May 2006. For more information go to Not Dead Yet website.

I am open to requests to do poetry readings.

‘LET IT BE US’ EVENTS IN 2007

With my friends I am organising a series of evening events called ‘Read in the Round’, where a few of us get together and read something which either we have written ourselves or which has inspired us, made us laugh or made us think. The odd song has broken out. If you would like to come to any of these events please contact me by e-mail (mich@michathome.wanadoo.co.uk)

It is a chance to get your signed copy of the book. The next two are on:

February 16th in East London
March 9th in Nottingham Trent University

Poems

February 16th in East London

March 9th in Nottingham Trent University