Breathe in the night garden

As a writer, you can never rely on serendipity – that amazing happy accident when things come together; but when it happens, it’s a big bonus. It can be something as simple as the perfect word popping into your head at the right moment, or more complex, such as where inspiration for writing a poem is channelled by chance input from another source.

This is what happened for poet Susan Clark of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire when an exercise was set by Holmfirth Writers’ Group, writers in all genres who would normally meet at the local library, but were driven onto Zoom by the coronavirus restrictions. Last May, members were invited to write on the topic