You Won’t See Me Cry is a difficult one to explain. I was looking through my romantic peotry one day in August and realised that I’ve never written a poem from the point of view of relationship break up. I challenged my high level of empathy to the test and attempted to write something I’ve […]

I wrote Bye Bye Bibby Bye Bye and posted it on Facebook for a friend. One of my family members said that I never wrote poems for them and A Poem For You was something that rolled around my subconscious for around two weeks. Erin Read the poem A Poem For You and more Poems […]

Bye Bye Bibby Bye Bye was written for a friend of mine who I worked with. She left the office to go on to pastures new and this poem was something I came up with the following day. Erin Read the poem Bye Bye Bibby Bye Bye and more Poems written by Erin Cawood at […]

In the middle of June, I experienced an awful period of not being able to sleep properly. My mind would not shut off and by the time I wrote Insomnia I was physically exhausted. I don’t know how people who suffer with insomnia manage, I was actually sleeping. Not properly granted, but not at all? […]

Going back to my inability to actually put something into the post box. (The Wicked Witch) This time I actually managed to do it. I wrote a poem as a thank you to my best friend. She reads all of my novel extracts and she tells me if things don’t work. She listens to my […]

The Idea for my first noval came to me almost four years ago, after many false starts and periods of the dreaded writers block I finally sat down to write it in January 2008. Since then I’ve been a rubbish girlfriend, a rubbish daughter, a rubbish sister, a terrible aunty, and a pretty rubbish friend. […]

As far as putting things into a post box go, I am rubbish at it. Remembering what day it is, and when it is not a problem for me. I’ll by a card, I’ll write in it, I’ll even address and put a stamp on it. But actually posting it? I seem to have a […]