Karen Megson

Grizzly Karen Megson

I've always been a bit of a joker and quick to make a rhyme out of any situation and sometimes I didn't even realise I was doing it. After having a crap few years the only way I felt I could get something off my chest was to write it down. It made me feel like I'd spoken to someone about it and if I'm honest it felt like a bit of an anger release. I started writing poems about life, Daily occurrences and things that we all get itchy teeth over, chucked in a bit of humour then added what we call a 'Karenism' WARNING... I do tend to swear a tiny bit. After a lot of encouragement from my husband Mark, our girls Elysia and Kaitlin and my friends, I set up a group on Facebook which quickly grew with positive input and poems from members who'd joined from all different parts of the world I was then asked if I'd give permission to have one of my poems read on a live show on Facebook it went really well and again received great feedback I was then asked if I'd go on to the show myself and read two more pieces I'd written, live, was absolutely terified but grew a set of poet balls and did it (after a beer or two obviously). That was it. My confidence grew a bit more as did my poetic nuts. Everyone said, "Kas you don't realise how good you are and one day you'll have your own book published""Aye right...... I'm nowhere near that level yet" Then John Munro and Sam McGurran from the Gorbals Writing Group contacted me. Apparently, I was...