In December last year, a small group of poets I belong to online, (I say small, but there’s 400 or so) came up with an idea. Each person could submit up to two poems to the group each month for a year, and a prompt would be sent each month to remind you, if you took part. Then at the end of the year, all of those pieces submitted would form an anthology – the group’s second, as far as I know. The resulting book would then be sold to raise money for charity.

This is the second, and hardest, of the two projects I’ve embarked on this year. I’m pledging to create one poem each month during 2025 to help the group with this worthy cause.

The other project I’m involved in is an anthology called “Fragments of an Unquiet Mind”. This is an anthology about mental health – a subject with which I have some experience. I have written about it in many forms through the years. This will also be sold for charity.

I feel very privileged to be able to be involved in projects like these; joining with other poets to make a real difference with my scribbles.