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Gorgeous miniature binding by Gabrielle Fox of my poem ‘The bookbinder’ - what a gift!
#finebookbinding #miniaturebooks

buzz buzz 💚

little brushes of larch 💚

Yesterday made a ⚡️ trip to Lewes to hear Neil Gower talk for LewesLitSoc about a life’s work with graphic art, books, maps, + his own writing.

So moving to see Neil’s art for ‘The Missing List’ among the images projected. I love what he created & I’m so happy to have his painting on my study wall.

My review of Robert Hamberger’s latest collection – for The Friday Poem

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this is my mother’s cloth tape measure, and the embroidered felt case (complete with tiny button and button loop!) that she made as a schoolgirl in the mid-1930s… a wonderful small reminder of an age of handmade detail in everyday objects – bringing so much pleasure still 😌

15 years since HappenStance published ‘Treasure Ground’ - my first poetry pamphlet.

On 11 Dec it’ll be 18 years since my risk-reducing bilateral mastectomies, wh inspired ‘Excisions’ (Waterloo Press 2011) & ‘Breastless’ (Pighog 2011).

Gratitude: a powerful emotion. I declare it here, today. 🙏🏻

#reading this week 🙏🏻📚

starry seedheads of Alexanders / Wild celery / Black lovage / Megweed / Hell root / Horse parsley 💚

hello blue sky - here’s a mackerel sky with silver birch #tunstallforest