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How Grace knew it was going to rain that night and a road trip with Jackson in Coca Cola country: Venda Sun 9

Coca Cola Giyani Grace Jackson Hlungwani John Baloyi Limpopo province Louis Trichart Palm Springs Pietersburg Museum of Art Sunlight Venda

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Black baby dolls and the drive from Thunder Mountain to Everest: Venda Sun 7

Body Shop Boots Gold Reef City hair Mac Mac Mpumalanga Orange Farm Palm Springs Sabie South Africa Southgate Mall Superdrug Thunder Mountain

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One of the most amazing drives in Africa: Venda Sun 6

Fever Tree Giya Makondo Wills Lesotho Malealea Lodge Moteng Mrisi Makondo-Wills New Oxbow Lodge Palm Springs poetry Risenga Makondo shepherds South Africa

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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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