I was born in 1940 and grew up in East Sussex. I took a Modern History degree and afterwards married a lawyer, wrote history for students, worked for now non-existent Chelsea Labour Party and reviewed for the Evening Standard, while my two children were small.
During the 1970s I turned to poetry, fiction and art, including painting and printmaking. I hope/ think my feminist socialist beliefs, blended with a childhood fascination with myth, are threaded through my writing, including my fiction, and in my pictures.
Around 2000 I returned to live in Lewes among the South Downs in East Sussex. So ended my slightly weird life in London where I was spending three months a year in Key West and other parts of the US (my husband Irving Weinman is an American writer).
Aside from my books and art shows my work has appeared in the UK and internationally in anthologies and magazines. I have read and given workshops at many festival and poetry venues, as well as showing my pictures in Lewes and Key West..
Over the nineties I worked for Kalayaan - Justice for Migrant Domestic Workers. In 1999 after many years’ membership I painfully left Blair’s Labour Party, and since 2001 I’ve helped to campaign for Occupied Palestine. In 2007 I was proud to be given the Society of Authors’ Cholmondeley Award for poetic achievement.
2007 CHOLMONDELEY AWARD
FOR POETIC ACHIEVEMENT
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And Other Fairy Tales -
Open House in Lewes Artwave with Judith Kazantzis and Carolyn Trant.
Paintings, drawings, prints & special display of Carolyn's Artbooks. August & September, see events for further details.
Just After Midnight is named for the hour when my mother died. My latest poetry book, its last section remembers her and my extraordinary father. But first I range from the USA, both lyric and satire, to poems of Sussex, Italy, Palestine, love, satire and memory that grew through many a night into wave paths of image.