A few samples of my work:

Soooo many requests for this poem came in after its premiere on BBC's 'Country Tracks' so, here it is!:

This place has texture – no-one rubs its corners off
(by Char March)

This is the moor where skylarks mock Vaughan Williams,
curlews’ throats bubble with peaty watermusic, and,
when I stop pedalling and listen hard, I can hear
Cathy’s keenings drifting through the Spring air
light as dandelion clocks – and as piercing as hail.

My wheels blur on cobbles into the brass bands
and flags as the railway children come to life again
– emerging like wraiths through whuffs of steam.
Then up and over the ridge of millstone grit
and windfarms, and I’m blown into the valley

of hippies and clogs, where artists and hill-farmers,
ex-millworkers, Reiki healers, playwrights
and the largest lesbian community in Britain
make the best multi-grain organic mix ever!
A true rainbow nation of passion for our town.

Up to the brooding perch of Heptonstall
where Sylvia lies in the fierce flames of her talent
above Hebden Water’s wooded gouge that she
and Hughes made sing with their poetry.
And we are buffeted – by the power of words –

back here to these Bronte moors
…to listen for Heathcliff.

Runner-up in National Trust poetry competition
I've been writing a lot of poems about moorland and wild weather
since becoming writer-in-residence for the Pennine Watershed area, and my poem'Nesh' was been chosen by Ian McMillan and Jo Bell (Director of National Poetry Day) as runner-up in the National Trust's national poetry competition.  Get inspired to write your own landscape poem by checking out the twelve shortlisted poems!

March 2011 - poem shortlisted in the Huddersfield Literature Festival competition.

Jan 2011 - I was Guest Writer in the literary magazine Envoi, so you can see six of my poems in there.

Dec 2010 - My short story, The Rabbit Intervention, published in Guildford Literature Festival anthology: Train In The Night.

Sept 2010 - poem published in the Ilkley Literature Festvial on-line anthology and poetry map - check it out, there are some corking poems!

I have just finished two years of touring with the Some Girls' Mothers anthology of creative non-fiction that has had superb reviews from critics and audiences alike.  For full details on the book and how to buy it go to Some Girls' Mothers. 

I've had short stories and poems published very widely in literary magazines (eg see Chroma) and anthologies (eg Bloodaxe, Comma, Crocus, Route).

Four chapters of my novel-in-progress have already been published, and one was runner-up in the prestigious NWP Fiction Award.  To read my NWP story use this link,then scroll down to my details and click on the bright yellow In Memory Of Showers.