You might remember, a little while ago, I posted about an exciting project I was invited to be a part of. ‘Poetry on the Shakespeare Line’ paired a poet with each station from Birmingham Moor Street to Stratford-upon-Avon, a train line named after the region’s most famous resident. I was paired with the idyllic, ruralContinue reading “Poetry on the Shakespeare Line”
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A Platform for Poetry
I am delighted to share that I am going to be a part of an exciting new poetry project. ‘People’s Poetry on the Shakespeare Line’ is organised by Black Country collective Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists, in partnership with West Midlands Railway. Eighteen poets, including myself, have been commissioned to write poems for each of theContinue reading “A Platform for Poetry”
Folkdays: Hedgehog Lore
FOR MORE FOLKDAYS CONTENT, SEE MY BLOG. For the past few evenings, my parents’ patio has been visited by a hedgehog, who appears quite brazenly from out of the undergrowth to feed at the birds’ ground table! Enticed back night after night with the promise of scraps of corned beef, he has grown increasingly comfortableContinue reading “Folkdays: Hedgehog Lore”
Throwback: Shakespiration
To those that have read the previous ‘throwback’ posts, and followed me on my journey of recounting my poetry journey – thank you! This will be the final post under this thread, and will bring everything up to the modern day, and where I’m at now. In this final chapter, I’ll be focusing on myContinue reading “Throwback: Shakespiration”
Folkdays: Reviewing Shakespeare and The Folktale
FOR MORE FOLKDAYS CONTENT, SEE MY BLOG. When I stumbled across a copy of Charlotte Artese’s book while Christmas shopping in Bath, I was compelled to buy it as a gift to myself. In the title alone, my two favourite topics for research were brought together: Shakespeare and the Folktale. I had, somewhat on theContinue reading “Folkdays: Reviewing Shakespeare and The Folktale”
Nellie Cole 