Delighted to have one of my sonnets featured in Glomag, May, 2022. Thankyou Glory.
Uncategorized
#30DaysWild. Day Five. #WorldEnvironmentDay, whose theme is #Onlyoneearth. Please join Cy Forrest and myself in celebrating this day. I will feature your photos, writing and artworks about your environment . Can you make a piece of art, photo or poem/short prose based on the themes below every day in June? First drafts perfectly acceptable. Haikus, Tanka. Preliminary sketches, photos. I will feature all on the day, and add after, too.
#30DaysWild. Day Four. Hedgehog. I wil feature your photos, writing and artworks on these small creatures. Can you make a piece of art, photo or poem/short prose based on the themes below every day in June? First drafts perfectly acceptable. Haikus, Tanka. Preliminary sketches, photos. I will feature all on the day, and add after, too.
#30DaysWild challenge.Day Three. A Wildlife Trust Reserve. You may have already visited one. If you took photos while there I will feature those, if you wish. Also, any writing or artwork you did while you were there. If you have not visited one yet, please use the link below to find the nearest one to you. Can you make a piece of art, photo or poem/short prose based on the themes below every day in June? First drafts perfectly acceptable. Haikus, Tanka. Preliminary sketches, photos. I will feature all on the day, and add after, too.
Met Obs by Lizzi Thistlethwayte (Waterflag Press)
Met Obsis a large pamphlet, lovely to hold and look through, withsuperb black-and-white photographs by Jen Lindsay.You are encouraged to take your time over these poems: even a four-line poem will usually be in the centre of an otherwise blank page. And they need time: they have a fullness which allows for sudden new directions, jump-cuts, and startling changes of register. There is a strong presence of what feels like rural Suffolk, a particular house and garden, and its surrounding natural world; of night; and also of the sea and seashore. There are other human presences.The idea of a world in endless transformation is there in the first poem, ‘Moly’. The middle stanza has a steady focus on sleet on a ploughed field until, in its third and last line:
‘a seethecapsizing meunmoored strangeness of raw’
Through its characteristic patterning of sound (seethe/memoor/rawcaps/ness), we feel the plough and the…
View original post 533 more words
#30DaysWild challenge.Day Two. Wildflowers. Can you make a piece of art, photo or poem/short prose based on the themes below every day in June? First drafts perfectly acceptable. Haikus, Tanka. Preliminary sketches, photos. I will feature all on the day, and add after, too.
#30DaysWild challenge.Day One. A Meal In The Wild. Can you make a piece of art, photo or poem/short prose based on the themes below every day in June. I will feature all on the day, and add after, too.
Delighted that my poet friend V.B. Borjen has today surprised me with this reading of my poem “I Can’t Make Neither” from my recent collaboration with artworker Jane Cornwell “Wonderland in Alice plus other ways of seeing” Jane’s Studio Press, 2021). Thankyou, Velid
Celebrate #NationalBiscuitDay today! What is your favourite biscuit? What is it about the biscuit, taste, texture, smell that entices you? Have you written about it, created artworks/photos about it? Join The Pembrokeshire poet and I in celebrating biscuits. I would love to feature you on The Wombwell Rainbow.
Photo of their own Bourbonhenge by The Pembrokeshire Poet.
-River Swan Avon.
They say about Jammie Dodgers:
Who doesn’t love a Jammie Dodger? They’re the staple of Brits’ biscuit tins with their perfect combination of shortcake and jam! The heart in the middle says it all
Bios And Links
-The Pembrokeshire Poet
lives in Pembrokeshire in Wales. A teacher, therapist, parent of 3, writer, poet. Passionate about people, Inclusivity (lots of their poems are themed around this) Wales, literature and laughter. They have completed three children’s novels as well as lots of poems and their dream is to be a published author.
-River Swan of Avon
is an independent publisher of illustrations, cards and prints, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. All illustrations are inspired by Great Britain. They are created by Naomi Hands-Smith using a traditional nib ink pen and layered with bright watercolour washes. See http://riverswanofavon.com
Your Artworker Media Featured Here: Sue Finch is a poet. She loves all kinds of coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers.
Sue says: I want people to be able to hear my poetry read aloud and am enjoying creating an archive of my work. I aim to record a poem each month.
Her site can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdPS21ilEZ1rrlnF_rkJV7w/about
The Wombwell Rainbow 