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Bristol Hand-Made Book Fair – and Ed Boxall!

So last weekend was a busy weekend, what with one thing and another, but we did manage to squeeze in a little time to visit Bristol Hand-Made Book Fair which is always fun. And met up with the lovely Ed Boxall, children’s poet. Lola came too, of course! I came away with two of Ed’s …

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D is for Emily Dickinson, Extraordinary Women #AtoZ Challenge

Daguerrotype of 16 year old Emily Dickinson, Amherst College Archives & Special Collections. . Emily Dickinson – what a lovely, gentle expression she had- was born on the 10th of December 1830, and died on the 15th of May, 1886, in Ameherst, Massachussetts. She studied at Ameherst Acadamy for seven years and then went for just …

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Advance Poetry Retreat 2015

Every year, I have the enormous pleasure of getting together with a group of children’s poets. This was organised in the beginning by Roger Stevens, after talking to Brian Moses about how isolated children’s poets are. Roger decided to invite a group of children’s poets to a retreat so they could meet. That is how I found …

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