Yesterday at 2.45pm the Spring Equinox arrived. Hurray! Winter really felt like the longest slog, so I’m glad to see my least favourite season fall behind for another year.
Today is World Poetry Day, and to celebrate jointly with the first day of Ostara, I thought I’d share a couple of spring-themed poems from my collection, Toebirds & Woodlice. Here I am reading ‘Convolvulus Arvensis’ and ‘The Frivolous Earth’.
The first day of spring over here in Northern Ireland was surprisingly warm, reaching 14°C; positively balmy compared to recent temps. As shown in the photo above, I always seize the moment to get some vitamin D whenever I can and there’s no better way to do that than to bask in the sun. I’ve heard that the weather is going to take a dip next week, and there may be snow showers. Oh well. I’ll enjoy it then while it lasts.
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 