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Janice
@janicedempsey.bsky.social
British writer, artist, publisher (VOLE/Dempsey & Windle). No longer inviting individual ms submissions but offering publication in anthologies based on poetry competitions and a biennial pamphlet competition. Europhile avoiding politics with difficulty.
NEW YEAR WISHES for 2025

Everything passes, however alarming.
Viewing the war-zones, quoting the politics,
End may be nigh, but here's hoping we get to '26.

(from 'Acrostic New Year Wishes 2025)
December 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM
New poem on Substack substack.com/home/post/p-...
December 11, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Our VOLE weekly newsletter - two slips of the typing finger this week but here's the final version for St Andrew's Day Scottish bank holiday — mailchi.mp/93f4cc1d7e44...
December 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
A multi-edited poem.
November 29, 2024 at 1:01 PM
GWR had serious timetable problems today but we loved the trip between Reading and Totnes. Took these snaps as the sun went down at Newton Abbot just before our destination.
November 21, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Returned to my first love recently — painting. Attending life-drawing and portraiture workshops for the past few months. This one is 'Matt' (oil on canvas).
November 19, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Returned to my first love recently — painting. Attending life-drawing and portraiture workshops for the past year. Here's an oil-bar portrait I made there a couple of months ago, that I'm not ashamed to show here. I'm enjoying your posts, Jonathan.
November 19, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Looking forward to a pleasure I've not enjoyed for some years: a train journey to Devon, for Clive Donovan's launch of his 3rd collection of poems, 'Movement of People', on 21st at Bogan House in Totnes. We published it last month and we're very proud of it. www.dempseyandwindle.com/clivedonovan...
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM
The Brian Dempsey Pamphlet Prize opens soon... www.dempseyandwindle.com/competition....
November 18, 2024 at 1:38 PM