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A life of mending

Brighton and Hove environment Jackie Wills Jane Sybilla Fordham mending poetry Salt Publishing sewing

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Not a sun or moon

February 11, 2026

Jane Sybilla Fordham Making the Wedding Dress poetry Powder Tower Salt Publishing TS Eliot prize

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Pantywaist looking for work

October 07, 2025

Books and Debate language old old women poetry retirement

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Gardens, responsibility and conflict

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Care, neglect and the domestic

January 05, 2025

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Should I stay or should I go?

November 26, 2024

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The mirror of the present and getting on with it

September 01, 2024

Alexis Korner Bob Cobbing Lol Coxhill poetry

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God of the Forest and books talking

August 09, 2024

Cyprien Tokoudagba John Baloyi John Baloyi art gallery New England Review poetry spirits vixen vodun Vonani Bila

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Words for women

Binders Full of Women Jane Fordham Matthew Miller misogyny poetry women

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Is this the right time to retire from anger?

August 28, 2022

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The songs angels and children sing

Charleston Festival city farms Emily Gravett Giya Makondo Wills heritage Jill Gardiner Michael Morpurgo Mrisi Makondo-Wills On Poetry photography poetry Sarfraz Manzoor Yasmin Cordery Khan

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Jam tomorrow or jammy dodger?

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Poet gardeners

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Nature notes from a new generation and country souvenirs

September 21, 2021

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An ancient Greek fish and washed up sunglasses

August 18, 2020

A Friable Earth Apollinaire Aratea calligrams collaboration Creative Response creative writing Daisy Daisyfest George Mackay Brown poetry poetry and art Public Domain Review The Grange workshops

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Your mum and prizes

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#Instagram poetry

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Fame, patriarchy, capitalism and everything else that's wrong

January 07, 2020

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A Friable Earth

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Write or fight?

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Making the Wedding Dress

Cover image Jane Sybilla Fordham. Forthcoming from Salt 2026

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: I'm a UK writer. My seventh collection of poetry is published by Salt.

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Cover painting: Allotment by Jane Sybilla Fordham

Poems on earth, badger paths, on being a slow worm and getting older

Words for women

Now on 4th version. The first was published in Binders Full of Women, 2012

Woman's Head as Jug

Cover painting, The Five Sisters of Suduireaut by Jane Fordham.

Blacksmith

from Woman's Head as Jug

How I write

Royal Literary Fund podcast

Royal Literary Fund showcase

Discussion with poet Geoff Hattersley

Poem for a path

Between Footsteps was commissioned by potter Julian Belmonte for a path at Farnham Maltings in Surrey

Lovers' Triptych, a poem commissioned by Helen Storey

The forensic dress

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