Joan Sutcliffe born in the rugged area of the moorlands in the north of England, grew up enjoying the literature of the Romantic poets such as Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth, and those writers who touched on the untamed beauty of the natural world. She has published two books; Blue Sky of High Places and from Time to Time. in writing she prefers to create mystical themes. She loves poetry because the use of language and metaphor, that is the essential quality of a poem, gives voice to what is more ethereal and often otherwise inexplicable. As poetry expresses itself in condensed form or veiled hints, rather than the precise details of prose, it exerts a response from the listener’s imagination, thereby opening up the reader to a deeper experience.