WELCOME
My name is Rosaline Callaghan, and I’m the voice behind Wild Storyteller.
A name I chose because the stories I tell (and live), and the poems I write don’t wear sensible brogues.
They run barefoot, they maunder, they resist.
They plunge into the Mariana Trench of memory and myth, and reach for a glint of meaning.
Although I didn’t grow up with the language of ‘art’, I read a lot.
And, I was always, always listening.
For me, poetry and storytelling isn’t about entertainment alone.
It’s about remembering who we are and what we belong to.
It’s about reclaiming lost voices, and foraging for hidden voices.
It’s about sitting still long enough to hear the wind carry someone else’s truth to you.
It’s about being willing to heft your truth to someone else’s feet.
I’m a recovering bewildered wanderer, barrister, people pleaser and dipsomaniac.
It only took six decades of unravelling before I finally learned the shape of my one wild and precious life.
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