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Cover painting: Allotment by Jane Sybilla Fordham

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

A writer's responsibility - words

Woman's Head as Jug

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

Blacksmith

from Woman's Head as Jug

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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