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Half price sedation

November 15, 2025

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Gardens, responsibility and conflict

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Time and its manifesto

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Care, neglect and the domestic

January 05, 2025

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To comrade tree

January 14, 2023

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Making the Wedding Dress

Cover image Jane Sybilla Fordham @janesybilla

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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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