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Baptism
(A New Year’s Day poem)It takes a while for her ego to catch up with her energywhich had flown ahead eager She ventures another three careful steps towards the waterbare feet finding a new hold toes feel the familiar edge of smooth worn wood on the pontoonsome of yesterday still pooling in the ridges Toes spread, tendons […]
We are all water
Tapping into a deep seam where a clear river runs underground, I open my palms and stare at them. The liquid within my flesh is the same as the current beneath. We are all water. We are all the blood of life. My bones are the pressed dust of minerals, thousands of years old – […]
Forgiveness
Forgiveness (a poem) I wrote after a brief conversation with a friend around feelings of shame. Billie Eliot put a shout out for content for her audiozine Beneath The Surface, exploring the theme of shame and I sent her a recording of the poem. Have a listen at 5:18. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4WCyBKUcOCxX7IyWCCUCPE?si=BgWjm-pfQueZ5ScF0I0Y-w
Hiding Place
HIDING PLACE my favourite collaboration with John Clarke.
GIG! Great Lawn Sessions 10 June 2021
GIG INFO THU 10 JUN: FIONN COX-DAVIES + KATIE WHITEHOUSE & FRIENDS FOOD from 6pm (out on the lawn) First set: I’ll be joined by my a capella chorus, Heartwave, and guitarist Vince Iddon. Second set: Fionn Cox-Davies Fionn’s music sits in a modern-folk/experimental genre taking inspiration from the likes of Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley […]
LIKE A STAR (for Max)
Yesterday we gathered together in disbelief held our breath touched the cool of your waxy perfection sang and spoke and cried stroked your graceful clever hands and your perfect unlined brow Today we stumble bravely into the epicentre of shared grief all our arms and our collective minds reach out, to hold a family and […]