Welcome

I never knew I wanted to be a writer and only took up the pen after suffering a severe bout of anxiety and depression a couple of years ago, and that was initially just to scribble something down in a journal every day. In the process of that scribbling, I discovered a joy for wordplay and poetry. There’s something about allowing my thoughts and emotions to breathe through the power of the medium that has been profoundly healing for me.

I’ve had poetry published in various anthologies (books) and my own first collection of poetry Phases of the Moon is due to be published in early August 2012. You can keep updated with news about this and other books & authors at Winter Goose Publishing.

Thank you for visiting and I hope that you’ll enjoy a selection of my writing that ranges from poetry & fiction to articles and opinion pieces. I am a freelance writer and therefore always on the look out for work! Contact me at bookwriter222@gmail.com

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Exploring intimate worlds and profound moments, British poet Louise Hastings’ debut collection will open your mind and haunt your senses. With unique imagery and powerful emotion, you will be consumed as you set sail on an ethereal journey through artistry and imagination.

Arthur Rimbaud

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men: the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and, if demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!