Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Kitty Donnelly, prize-winning author of The Impact of Limited Time, toreflect upon a poem from her collection.

Thank you for letting me drop in to share one of my poems from The Impact of Limited Time. The collection was written over many years. When I found out it would be published by Indigo Dreams, I was just about to board a ferry back from the Isle of Arran in 2019. There is a wishing well at the ferry port and I threw some money in on arrival and swore to myself that if I went through with the reading for the McLellan Poetry Prize then good luck would come of it (I was trying to overcome my ridiculous shyness). I managed to read aloud to an audience for the first time, after a large brandy in the hotel room…