Welcome to Phoenix’s world-changing Salon

A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

Welcome to the world Harper

mord­wen  and journey2master  are delighted to announce the arrival of the littlest_cloud , Harper Ave­line Cloud, born at 12:36 am on Janu­ary 27th, 2009. Par­ents and baby are doing well. Mum and baby will be recu­per­at­ing at the Mercy hos­pital for the…

Hysterically funny…

journey2master  is on the phone to goldfish42 , who just shared this with us – warn­ing NOT SAFE FOR WORK:When you’re done, watch the out-takes. Brilliant.

Journalism in troubled times

Every week, a journ­al­ist some­where is killed or assaul­ted for simply doing their job.This extraordin­ary edit­or­ial by the murdered editor of the Sri Lankan Sunday Leader was appar­ently writ­ten just a few days before his death.May these brave souls con­tinue their work.…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

These are poems and mean­der­ings that made their way to the page. I’d love to hear what you think of them. Want to get in touch? Drop me a line!

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.