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poet & writer
Welcome to my website.
Welcome to my website.
I am a poet, writer and workshop leader living on the Isle of Wight.
I am a poet, writer and workshop leader living on the Isle of Wight.
With an Arts Council Individual Writer’s Award, I started to work towards my first collection Notes on Sea and Land. (2011)
With an Arts Council Individual Writer’s Award, I started to work towards my first collection Notes on Sea and Land. (2011)
My poem Night Drive was a Bridport prize winner, shortlisted for the Forward Best Single poem in 2010 and published in the Forward Poems of the Decade in 2011.
My poem Night Drive was a Bridport prize winner, shortlisted for the Forward Best Single poem in 2010 and published in the Forward Poems of the Decade in 2011.
My Writing
My Writing
The power of place and the other than human world is a rich creative resource for me and it’s often while I’m walking that the words wander into my head. Living as I do on an island, I can’t help but be inspired by the sea.
The power of place and the other than human world is a rich creative resource for me and it’s often while I’m walking that the words wander into my head. Living as I do on an island, I can’t help but be inspired by the sea.
Sea
Sea
Even when I’m not in the sea
I am sensing her. The sea is in me.
I am thinking of her when
I am writing, when the dry wind
rattles the stubble, when my skin
burns and the leaves of the chestnut tree
shrivel at the end of summer,
even if it is hours
or years since she has held me,
I am thinking of the sea.
Even when I’m not in the sea
I am sensing her. The sea is in me.
I am thinking of her when
I am writing, when the dry wind
rattles the stubble, when my skin
burns and the leaves of the chestnut tree
shrivel at the end of summer,
even if it is hours
or years since she has held me,
I am thinking of the sea.
The Rialto Magazine and Notes on Sea and Land
The Rialto Magazine and Notes on Sea and Land
‘The footprint is our original letter, and the path our earliest story.’
Robert Macfarlane, (Foreword, While Wandering, edited by Duncan Mitchell)
‘The footprint is our original letter, and the path our earliest story.’
Robert Macfarlane, (Foreword, While Wandering, edited by Duncan Mitchell)
I write poetry, hybrid poetry and prose collections and short stories as well as reviews and articles.
I write poetry, hybrid poetry and prose collections and short stories as well as reviews and articles.
Workshops & Projects
Workshops & Projects
Since 2000, I have worked in schools in Literature Development (Arts Council), leading workshops and cross arts weekends for young people, and later as Writer in Residence for the Healing Arts and for HMP Isle of Wight. I have facilitated many community Writing for Well Being workshops and projects often inspired by location and in collaboration with other artists. I’m a professional member of the National Association for Writers in Education.
Since 2000, I have worked in schools in Literature Development (Arts Council), leading workshops and cross arts weekends for young people, and later as Writer in Residence for the Healing Arts and for HMP Isle of Wight. I have facilitated many community Writing for Well Being workshops and projects often inspired by location and in collaboration with other artists. I’m a professional member of the National Association for Writers in Education.
‘Confidence builder, idea giver, poem inspirer, door opener.’
Workshop participant
‘Confidence builder, idea giver, poem inspirer, door opener.’
Workshop participant
If your group is interested in a workshop, perhaps linked to a particular location, please get in touch.
If your group is interested in a workshop, perhaps linked to a particular location, please get in touch.
My latest collection is
Ampersand
Imprint: Valley Press Published: October 2022 ISBN: 9781912436897
My latest collection is
Ampersand
Imprint: Valley Press Published: October 2022 ISBN: 9781912436897
“When a poet daughter discovers a set of war diaries in a familiar hand, it sparks a spine-tingling, creative response that forges a new bond with the artist mother she has lost. Fulleylove has created a unique dialogue – in poems, prose, collaged pieces and diary extracts – an experimentally-fascinating, honest, often moving, beautifully-crafted book. A remarkable meeting of artistic minds.”
Robyn Bolam
“When a poet daughter discovers a set of war diaries in a familiar hand, it sparks a spine-tingling, creative response that forges a new bond with the artist mother she has lost. Fulleylove has created a unique dialogue – in poems, prose, collaged pieces and diary extracts – an experimentally-fascinating, honest, often moving, beautifully-crafted book. A remarkable meeting of artistic minds.”
Robyn Bolam
“These poems move with a sensitive, self-questioning intelligence, letting Fulleylove’s mother’s experience speak from its own immediacy but feeling for resonances in the poet’s own life and times, inviting the reader into a shared space that is not so much timeless – history is the living core of it – but stepped aside from mere chronology into a genuine conversation we are privileged to overhear.”
Philip Gross
“Lydia Fulleylove’s gloriously sustained set piece retrieves the past like a cache of old photographs. The meeting of the voices of these two women speaks of the dark retrieval of time, couched in fascinating historical detail, and linked by infinite love.”
Philip Hoare
“In this exceptional and unusual collection, Fulleylove pursues the difficulties of grief, finding meeting points with her mother, through sensuous but separate experiences of the physical world.”
Stephanie Norgate
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