It’s here! My long-awaited pamphlet from Red Squirrel Press has arrived in the post today, and is available on their site at: This is now for sale on the Red Squirrel website, zoom launch soon! https://www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page/honesty-mirror-ellen-mcateer . It had a splendid launch of sorts online at St. Mungo’s Mirrorball at a reading with Vahni Capildeo, Elizabeth Rimmer and William Bonar. A wonderful event reminiscent of Mirrorballs of old, making me miss Scotland more than ever! However, London life is about to get better as I got on to the Goldsmiths Creative Writing MA, which will start in September. So this little beauty is launching a really good year!

Many of the poems in this wee book remember my mother and father, who have both passed away, but taught me by example that it is never too late to be your true self. Here is the proof, with its own ISBN, that I am a POYET! I am sure they are both raising a glass somewhere…