It’s Easter Sunday, so if you celebrate – or even if you don’t – here’s a poem that’s fitting for spring. Personally, as more of a paleo-pagan-princess, I’m more into Ostara than Easter, but who can argue with chocolate eggs, whatever you’re into. I’ll be making myself a lovely batch of keto chocolate eggs later using silicon moulds that I picked up in Poundland. Can’t wait!
This poem, ‘The Frivolous Earth’ appears on page 32 of my zany poetry collection, Toebirds & Woodlice.
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 