by Catherine Chanter | Mar 6, 2023 | Reading & Writing
When I am fully immersed in writing – and this is perhaps particularly true of writing fiction – I find it hard to read anything with a serious level of attention. Sometimes it’s a case of self-confidence as almost nothing I write seems as good as someone else’s...
by Catherine Chanter | Jul 14, 2022 | Reading & Writing
On Friday 8th July, 2022 A Child in the Middle was officially welcomed into the world. As well as fellow writers, family and old friends, a large number of colleagues from the world of mental health, adoption and education attended The Old Fire Station in Oxford for a...
by Catherine Chanter | Jun 8, 2022 | Reading & Writing
To set in motion. To send something out into the world, such as a ship into the ocean, or a rocket into space. We don’t talk about launching babies, but there are times in a child’s life where it feels as though launch could be the right verb. When they...
by Catherine Chanter | Jun 8, 2022 | Poetry
This is one of the many poems which appears in A Child in the Middle. I kept my own ‘poetry diary’ of my search for my birth parents, only to discover – when I finally met my mother – that she, too, was a poet and her work is included as well....
by Catherine Chanter | Mar 1, 2022 | Poetry
Last summer we spent a week in France with a couple who had spent a long time trying to get pregnant. It is something I come across on a professional basis all the time, reading how prospective adopters have had to come to terms with their multiple losses through...
