It’s finally spring, my second favourite season of the year. To celebrate the spring equinox yesterday and World Poetry Day today, here’s a spring-themed poem from my collection, The Redundancy of Tautology, published by Cyberwit in 2021.
I’ve been reading more poetry lately, and not just because of World Poetry Day. Working in a library, where I’m surrounded by so many books (and not enough hours in the day to read everything!) has expanded my reading – tastes and the amount of books read. The last two books I reviewed on my Goodreads author page were poetry books.
As for writing more poetry? I tend to work on a project when inspiration strikes, and at the moment it’s all fiction, so I haven’t got any new poetry collection ideas lined up for now. If something comes to mind, I might just churn out a new poetry book, if the inspiration strikes.
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 