Deirdre Cartmill

Deirdre Cartmill is a poet, writer, channel and healer.

Love, loss and a restless search for the Divine are recurring themes in her writing. Her work is ultimately about hope, redemption and a return to the soul.

She has published three poetry collections – The Wind Stills to Listen, The Return of the Buffalo, and Midnight Solo.

When she had two heart attacks in a week at the age of forty-three, she stumbled onto her spiritual journey, and discovered her gifts as a channel and healer. Now she is passionate about sharing what she was shown with others, so they can heal through divine love, follow their soul, find their purpose, and live in joy, peace and love.

Her first channelled book is Soul Touching Soul: Healing Wisdom from My Spirit Guide.

She was born in Northern Ireland and after several years away returned home, where she lives by the sea with her partner.

“This modern-day mystic brings an often-heartrending clarity to her sequence of poems about Mary Magdalene. Elsewhere, poems about the loss of a baby in utero and “the dead in the earth” are especially moving, bringing home what a spiritual miracle life in a physical body really is. The vividly-expressed desire to “heal with love, not miracles” and the search for the transcendent infuse this collection.”

- Lucy Caldwell on The Wind Stills to Listen

“The Wind Stills to Listen is a collection that is unafraid to look into the dark, to speak of heartbreak and of what it means to be human and mortal. It also holds seeds of hope, moving into a celebration of “love as a miracle” (Blossom) and through the story of Mary Magdalene, Cartmill engages us all in an encounter with the divine.”

- Moyra Donaldson

“…a poet undaunted by examining even the darkest of moments, of trying to describe, understand and finally learn from loss and what it means… Her work is vital, accessible and should be read.”

- Culture Northern Ireland