Connie waxes lyrical with a lifetime dedication to poetry

A Termonfeckin Guild member, who has belonged to three ICA guilds, was a joint winner in the recent national poetry competition.

Connie McEvoy has been “writing little verses” since she was a teenager and is inspired to write by everyday experiences.

“One day I decided to do some knitting to amuse myself,” she says. “I had the yarn and the needles and I knew what I was going to knit. I’ve suffered from innumeracy all my life — I can’t get to grips with numbers so I use a counter to count the rows. I couldn’t find it.”