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Are you happy with pessimism?

December 11, 2019

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A kingfisher at Charleston

November 29, 2019

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Is it time to sink a well?

November 16, 2019

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Reading in translation

September 28, 2019

Constantin Cavafy Janet Sutherland John McCullough Kay Syrad Maria Jastrzebska poetry in translation Robert Hamberger

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And so the rain came

September 23, 2019

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The allotment can not be relied on as a place of tranquility

September 08, 2019

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A Friable Earth

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Black Brighton

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Write or fight?

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Always learning

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The devil's own job - warnings from a dead gardener

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My grief at the loss of silence.

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Brighton's filthy masterpiece - Lewes Road and the taxi driver's story

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Escape into snail trails

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The best book I've read

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The difficulty of prizes and ageism

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Retreat

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The soil

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A whale and wandering womb

February 16, 2019

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Dolly and Jolene - a taste for country

January 18, 2019

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Towards the sea

January 10, 2019

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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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