Catherine, who was recently in India to conduct workshops in web-poetry, immediately comes across as a warm and vivacious person. She writes mainly on Irish landscapes and people. I am essentially a paper poet. Now, she is totally focussed on how to use the web creatively to express her thoughts. The challenge is how to retain the five senses on this fascinating medium, she says.
Web is basically a visual medium.
The appeal comes not only from the text of the poem, but also the images in the background. The space around the poem means something, explains Catherine. And she uses incredibly innovative images spilled yogurt, hair of a forearm, cat pawprints, salt crystals in that space to send across her messages. A non-technical background was no hindrance. I was lucky to have trAce, an organisation of online writers, backing me up.