MOIRA ANDREW

MOIRA ANDREW
Why I Write

I write because I must. 

​I write to explore emotions, to express frustration — grief, love, joy. After my husband died,  I wrote every day, poem after poem. 
They were raw - even funny at times, but always true.  Later they made a book, This year, Next year. 
 
I write to bring back memories, to give the dead their voices once again, ‘I could do with a shave, he says rasping his two-day beard’ and I hear his gentle Welsh accent. 
Poems are true  as photographs, sometimes even better.
 
 I write to share the funny side of things, like that very first kiss when I fell shattering my new boyfriend’s  record collection, That first kiss. 
 
And I write to say I love you.  Poems beat impersonal Valentine cards any day!  My latest collection Imagine a Kiss was published last year by D&W.
 
 I write because I must.

Moira Andrew's latest collection Imagine a Kiss was published last year by Dempsey & Windle