Creating Space: Youth Work in a World unfit for Purpose.
Adapted from a presentation given at the 2012 CYC-NET Conference I apologise. You have caught me at a bad time… It will probably pass… But it will most certainly return. […]
Category Archives: Writing
Art that goes deeper than the paintwork
One doesn’t have to be in Mexico for long to discover that her stories can be found on her walls: lining the poorly signposted calles and jam-packed metro stations; from […]
Bolder Wings
Casting off the cold steel strings: An escape that took much bolder wings, Than any tiny fleeting swift, Or any splendid swan could lift, Well still w’ll sing of freedom: […]
Girls and boys
Up against the cruelty machines ignite, With bloody noses from this Goliath fight, Well we are still just girls and boys, And love will always ache much longer. And far […]
Loch-side
Standing on edge on ageless fading loch – Still wearing two worn out second-hand shoes, And two odd socks – undoubtedly stolen: Water discovers these bruised and weary feet, And […]
Without Flinching
If broken was a name, Given only to delicate things and never to fragile souls. If freedom was not merely anti-gravity, Buried within dissident imaginations of the young and the […]
‘Go Home’
During Refugee Week, I have been working in a community flat in a 22 storey tower block, in the South-West of the city. It’s been a brilliant week with interesting […]
