I write poetry and plays under the pen name Anna Fawcett.

Poems

A Community Endeavour

When London solicitor Paul takes an ill-advised shortcut through rural Yorkshire, a fox, a muddy field and a complete lack of mobile reception leave him stranded in the tiny village of Meadowfield.

All he needs is a little help getting his car back onto the road.

Unfortunately, he has walked into the local pub.

There he meets Brian, a barman deeply suspicious of choice; Henry, who isn’t entirely convinced the Romans existed; Jim, who may or may not own two horses; Mavis, whose memories are considerably more flexible than Paul’s; and Irene, who has started knitting something that might eventually become a scarf.

As one simple request for assistance descends into an increasingly bewildering argument about truth, memory, belief, choice, friendship and watered-down lager, Paul’s confidence in the basic rules of reality begins to look distinctly fragile.

A Community Endeavour is an absurdist comedy about strangers, community and the stories we choose to believe — because sometimes it doesn’t particularly matter whether something is true, provided everyone remembers it the same way.