I am Alison Hramiak: poet, writer and tutor. Welcome to my web site: a place where you can discover more about me and my writing. A place to share my love of poetry.

 

I spend my time writing poetry, reviewing and editing poetry, and delivering 1:1 tuition in a variety of subjects at all levels. I have been published in journals and anthologies and on various websites including Forward Poetry collections, New Contexts, Dirigible Balloon, Impspired, and The Causley Trust as well as a number of anthologies dedicated to charities.

 

I edit and review poetry for Consilience, which explores the space where scientists and the arts meet. I review books for ‘together in the uk’, a place where migrants and refugees share their stories and receive advice, as well as for ‘grist – a journal of the literary arts’. My reviews have also been published in ‘The Other Side of hope’, a UK-based literary magazine edited by migrants. When I’m not writing or reviewing poetry, I write and read about history, and review history books for ‘The Historical Association’.

 

I write poetry because I believe that there is a beauty in language that poetry unwraps, one which reaches out like a sound that resonates, and which, in doing so, helps others to feel less alone. I write poetry to express my feelings and to convey a message about the things I feel strongly about. I write poetry because I love it.

If you’d like me to write something for you, or to review and edit for you, please contact me on LinkedIn or on Facebook.

Post Covid: Special Needs Kids

What happens to…

the ‘rear’ kids?

the ones with the silent voices

RIVER: Swale

I am water
and I am life.
     I am RIVER!
and I am going home.

Hear my voice from high up in the Pennines
running free over granite pools
that almighty Earth had formed,
leaping through the stone.
I can scent now the upland heather bloom,
snatch petals that pastel my heart,
see the purple hue that I will bedrench.
Watch me chase silver slanting salmon,
over whom my current has no dominion.

I am water
and I am life.
     I am RIVER!
and I am nearly home.

Rainbow

If you can

Look, see the children play.

Build sunshine from rain