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Between years

December 28, 2018

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The snowy past and its answering voice

December 12, 2018

change childhood Dylan Thomas snow Tove Janssen

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Singing again

November 27, 2018

Brighton choirs Jam Tarts Kwame Dawes Li Mills poetry Wham Jam

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More words for women than anyone can imagine

October 15, 2018

Woman's Head as Jug words for women

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The bass says more than words can

October 12, 2018

Caroline Bird dub Ishion Hutchinson Karen McCarthy Wood Katharine Towers Lee Scratch Perry Nick Makoha Nine Arches Press Tillie Olsen Vahni Capildeo Winchester Poetry Festival WW1

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Whose land is our land?

October 11, 2018

Azita Ghahreman Doireann Ni Ghriofa Golan Haji Ishion Hutchinson Lee Harwood Maura Dooley Nicola Madzirov Pascale Petit Pauline Stainer Vahni Capildeo

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Avant garde jazz and dead poets

October 06, 2018

Bob Cobbing Gillian Clarke Hed Wynn Ian McMillan Leontia Flynn Lol Coxhill Paul Batchelor Waldo Williams Wilfred Owen Winchester Poetry Festival

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Winchester poetry festival

September 27, 2018

Gillian Clarke Ian McMillan Karen McCarthy Wood Maura Dooley Nick Makoha Pascale Petit Rebecca Goss Sarah Hesketh Sasha Dugdale Stephen Watts Vahni Capildeo Winchester Poetry Festival

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The bin says break the rules

September 09, 2018

breaking rules city life mutual respect rules

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Semi-retired

August 13, 2018

Airbnb allotment Arvon Foundation poetry workshops retirement semi-retired

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Summer's patterns

Babs Horton dressmaking Jane Brotchie Josephine Corcoran Katharine McMahon Kerry Young Royal Literary Fund Royal Literary Fund Reading Round sewing vintage

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The thing about diversity

accessibility Alice Cooper conferences diversity race equality

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Solitude and old dresses

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White cat and speckled fox

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Summer's cabinet

allotment poetry poetry in gardens summer

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Buffalo, frog and fox

allotment buffalo fox fox cub frog storytelling

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Three and a half days

Arvon Foundation Craven Arms creative writing Open University The Hurst

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Reading the signs, framing the hole

gravestone John Muafangejo missing cat Palace Pier signs storytelling warning william Kentridge

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Words for old and earth

allotment earth mud old poetry poetry in gardens soil words for women

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On Ilkley Moor

Ilkley Moor red grouse Simon Armitage Stanza Stones

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A wheelie case full of avocados

avocado Brighton Limpopo South Africa Venda

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Paradise garden

February 20, 2018

Garden Museum gardening gardening poets gardens poet for hire poetry in gardens

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Keeping Fabrica's doors open

February 19, 2018

Brighton creative writing Fabrica Gallery fundraising Jane Fordham

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Lockers, Joseph Beuys and gallery assistants

January 17, 2018

Excess Baggage Group gallery assistants Joseph Beuys Leeds Art Gallery Leeds Central Station Leeds City Council Left luggage Network Rail Northern Trains Robert Tait MacKenzie terrorism

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: I'm a UK writer. I've published six collections of poetry, two guides to running workshops, short stories, journalism and non-fiction. I sew and have an allotment.

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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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