Clare Davies

Poet, teacher, story collector.  

Currently I am working on writing responses to this post-pandemic, surreal world we are living in.  I am particularly interested in how our young people are managing and the situations they find themselves in.  I am still writing about women but I have begun to explore how powerful men are still affecting much of the changes in this world, and how much agency women and girls feel that they really have in these arguably regressive times.  

I have recently organised and hosted a new open mic poetry event which brought some amazing fledgling poets together.  It was such a delight and we are going to make this a regular event.  Very exciting!

I love collecting snippets of stories and creating snapshots of experience.  During the pandemic, I revisited some draft poems that I had written about women.  They still very much resonated with me, and so I set about writing a little collection, which has been long in the making!

The poems are a reflection of the often complex and unpredictable situations women can find themselves in.  They are all true experiences and are written without judgement.  I hope that I have also shown strength and varying degrees of resolution for the women within the collection.