Thoughts on September 11th 2001

This is a poem I wrote on the evening of September 11th 2001. What kind of seed could grow in such darkness? Nourished with fury, watered with hate, I thought living things needed sunlight to grow, I was wrong. This evil was lurking somewhere, It might have been...

Preparing a Newsletter

It’s been a busy couple of months here chez Penry. At the moment, aside from all my current projects, I am preparing a newsletter about my writing and my latest projects (several in fact!) So if anyone would be interested in being added to my mailing list, do...

The Cursing Psalms

People are often surprised to find there are curses in the Bible. When they do discover that there are, they expect to find them only in the Old Testament with its ‘eye for an eye’ approach. But actually they turn up in the New Testament too. In the Act,...

A curse by any other name….

Originally I was going to blog again about Glastonbury, but then I spotted this little story and it was just too good to miss. People who know I’m a witch tend to take it at face value whereas some, on learning it for the first time start panicking because they...

A curse by any other name…..

Originally I was going to blog again about Glastonbury, but then I spotted this little story and it was just too good to miss. People who know I’m a witch tend to take it at face value whereas some, on learning it for the first time start panicking because they...

Glastonbury Dreams

I will never forget the first time I saw Glastonbury Tor. I had just learned to drive, and it was one of my very first journeys. I took my parents out for the day and it was nerve wracking, especially trying to drive through Bristol (something I never, ever mastered)....