Tag Archives: Poetry

Summer News 2024 + Workshops

We are delighted to be offering a range of participatory arts workshops for children as part of my Natural Wonder collection in the Summer holidays – 60 children are booked on already, all eligible for Pupil Premium. We have three more days of fairy door inspired sessions on Cary’s Meadow, with a mix of foraging,… Read More »

Eels, Nearly Eternal As Any Earthly Life – opens at Cley Marshes Visitor Centre

An absolutely stunning install day for ‘Eels, Nearly Eternal As Any Earthly Life’ which is open at Cley Marshes Visitor Centre, Norfolk Wildlife Trust from 2nd May to 2nd June. With wild wellbeing walks shared alongside many of the works on show and family friendly, with over 75 children’s poems to enjoy from children in… Read More »

You Don’t Need A Manifesto To Begin + Women In Art writers @ We Also Fight Windmills, Oxford University Press

Such an inspiration to have a new poem in this brilliant show at the Fairway Gallery in Oxford University Press, curated by Ania Ready. Fascinating work and so inspiring to see such diverse and provocative work in response to Polish writer Sophie Gaudier-Bzreska – exploring not just her own life, but themes of dissidence, oppression… Read More »

New Spring Workshops / Exhibitions

It’s a joy to see the first signs and seeds of Spring bursting into the seasons with the next few months incredibly busy for so many of us – am working on various features, including an interview with Issam Kourbaj Urgent Archive at Kettle’s Yard, as well as a look at Chilean artist Francisca Aninat… Read More »

Winter News 2023

Winter Workshops As well as Women In Art writing classes starting up next Spring, it’s gorgeous to be running Winged and Wild Winter Wonderland workshops for children again on the Broads National Park in the Christmas holidays – morning and afternoon sessions available. We’ll be helping winter wildlife, making lanterns, ice sculpture, enjoying magical trails… Read More »

Autumn News September 23 – Writing Classes and More!

Writing Success Sessions At The Feed Social Supermarket Lovely to start teaching writing classes at The Feed’s Social Supermarket in Norwich on Thursday mornings for children aged 11-16. These writing success sessions have an Autumn theme, but are also open to children to bring longer pieces they can work on each week – from comic… Read More »

Summer News 2023

Summer Holiday Workshops Natural Wonder Poetry Trail A Wild Water & Marshes boat trip workshop from Thorpe Ferry will accompany an extract from my poem Dreaming of Albion, Sailing With Maud (commissioned by Norfolk County Council) and is being installed near the ferry for the Summer holidays as part of the Natural Wonder Poetry Trail.… Read More »

Library Opening in King’s Lynn

It was such an honour to open a new library at King’s Oak Academy in King’s Lynn on Friday! Children told me all sorts of reasons why reading is so good to do – ‘it makes you smart’, ‘it’s good for your brain’, ‘it helps us know what to do’ – one child said they’d… Read More »

‘Shore Song’ poem published in Wicked Leeks magazine

My poem Shore Song, inspired by the founding story of the RSPB and humanity’s ability to restore or destroy biodiversity is published in the new edition of Wicked Leeks magazine. I had the spark of an idea to write it after spotting a little egret in the reeds in East Norfolk while working on my… Read More »

The Case of the Missing Eel – Cley Marshes, Norfolk Wildlife Trust

It was a joy to spend a day working with families and children at Cley Marshes for Norfolk Wildlife Trust in April surrounded by the stunning marine photography of Jack Perks – whose underwater filming many of us will have seen on David Attenborough’s Wild Isles. We explored marine life and eel habitat, reflected and… Read More »