Early walk with the dogs before lifeboat training at Lough Derg RNLI with Doireann, Tom and Ciara, what a stunning sky, not quite mammatus clouds. #LoughDerg #Skyscape #lifeboatwoman

So #introductions - Am a Mum & wife, a poet & writer (3 collections, 1 chapbook, 2nd forthcoming), currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick, am a lifeboat woman, helm & Press Officer w/ Lough Derg RNLI since 2003, an event curator, was founding member of the Dromineer Literary Festival, was a nurse and midwife in a former incarnation. www.eleanorhooker.com #poet #writer #lifeboatwoman #sailor