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Cloths of Heaven

August 05, 2009

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A women-only poetry prize

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Revisiting Tilly Olsen

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Equality is a long time coming

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Dark Night of the Soul

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Oxford Professorship and Moniza Alvi

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Anish Kapoor The Dismemberment of Jeanne d'Arc

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The C Curve and Chattri - Anish Kapoor on the Downs

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Anish Kapoor in Brighton

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A riot in Brighton

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Blood and ink

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Poem for a path

February 26, 2009

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Magic realism and the kitchen floor

February 25, 2009

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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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