In West Penwith at the very far end of Cornwall the full might of Storm Goretti was felt - trees fell, power and water supplies were cut off. Between the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel, where the land measures five and a half miles across, my moorland home was battered. It has endured a lot of rough weather in the two hundred years since it was built as the administration house for Ding Dong Mine and it's squat granite mass with low sloping roof survived this extreme weather event....

I don't find it easy to send work out to poetry magazines and most of the time it's a 'no' alongside an encouraging note to 'keep going'...

"Rebecca Althaus at Voices on the Edge, Dark Kernow @gwithianchapel , 27.01.24. A poet. In this hushed place of reverence, a poet stands,...