by Lana Hunneyball | Jan 26, 2024
The Healing Tree: a poem for Lalage " Read More When I write poems, they might bubble up unbidden, sublime, and I stand in awe. But often, getting them from egg to adult is a tortuous road demanding extreme portions of sacrifice and grace — just as with children. I...
by Lana Hunneyball | Jan 24, 2024
Writing a poem: how I see it " Read More People often ask me to tell them more about how I see the act of poetry creation. I can’t think of a better way to express it than my preface to “Flotsam and Jetsam: a half-life of poems”, so here it is....
by Lana Hunneyball | Jan 24, 2024
Another Covid Ball " Read More In 2020 I wrote this contribution for In the Midst: a Covid-19 Anthology by Sandy Tritt. The collection offers poems, stories and artworks from the world over. Slices of life that might, but for this project, have stayed in the vast...
by Lana Hunneyball | Jan 23, 2024
Stone in the Grass " Read More Bracing myself for a blustery autumn walk, I layered up and, on an optimistic whim, shoved my new rose quartz stone into the bra bit of my string-top. I was aware it was risky — the elastic supporting my little apples is worn — but rose...
by Lana Hunneyball | Jan 23, 2024
Kung Fu Take-down: What Iran can teach us about writer’s block " Read More A multi-talented young musician friend was struggling to get funding for a film project. He’d been moaning about it to everyone in general and no one in particular until, one day, he got...
