It is 2017 and yet one incidence of domestic abuse is reported to the police every minute, with the brunt of the pain caused by austerity politics borne by women and girls.

Please sponsor my poetry reading on April 8th as part of The Persisters and help raise much-needed funds for Women’s Aid, the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women.

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