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Refugee Week – Creative Transformation Writing Exercise

In Creative Writing, Poetry, Refugee Week by Kateinnes_123.@hW16th June 2020

Creative Transformation: In this creative writing exercise we are going to be allowing ourselves to go into positive, rewarding, uplifting territory. That doesn’t mean we deny that terrible and horrendous …

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Poetic Encounters #1 – A guest post by Andrew Howe – Visual Artist

In Poetry, Uncategorised, visual art by Kateinnes_123.@hW21st March 2018

Since the start of the year, I’ve been collaborating with visual artist Andrew Howe, as part of the Encounters Exhibition at the Visual Arts Network Gallery in Shrewsbury, which opened on …

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Dundee University Review of the Arts – ‘Flocks of Words’

In animals, Birds, Cave Art, Constellations, Creation Myths, Darwin, forests, Poetry by Kateinnes_123.@hW9th July 2017

The excellent DURA have posted a review of ‘Flocks of Words’. I am absolutely delighted by this beautifully written and thoughtful exploration of my poetry collection. I feel very well …

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Review of ‘Flocks of Words’ – The Book

In landscape, Poetry, reviews by Kateinnes_123.@hW4th May 2017

I’m very grateful to Pat Edwards (website mashup arts ), organiser of Verbatim Poetry on the Welsh Border, for reading and reviewing my new collection – Flocks of Words. It’s a strange …

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Imagined Worlds – Coleridge and Kublai Khan

In Birds, Friends of Coleridge, Kublai Khan, Poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, walking, Xanadu by Kateinnes_123.@hW17th November 2016

As a young person, I was very fortunate to have an excellent education. However, I fear it was a bit lacking in regards to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I went to an American …

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Walking the Hills

In Caer Caradoc, Fossils, Fun Palaces, geology, Poetry, Shropshire, Silurian, Stoke on Trent, The Lawley, The Wrekin by Kate Innes7th October 2015

Shropshire Hills – The Lawley from Caer Caradoc with The Wrekin beyond Earlier this year I received a commission to write a poem for a hydro-geologist, for his birthday.I was …

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Windows: looking in, looking out

In Andrew Motion, Cape Cod Morning, Edward Hopper, New England, Poetry by Kate Innes2nd July 2015

Cape Cod Morning – 1950  by Edward Hopper Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was raised in New York State, not very far from where I grew up, although, I hasten to add, …

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Speaking to the birds

In Jane Goodall, Medieval art, Poetry, St Francis preaching to the birds by Kate Innes23rd February 2015

St Francis preaching to the birds- Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337)detail from the Predella of St Francis Receiving the StigmataMusee du Louvre, Paris(The cockerel in the back row seems particularly attentive) …

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Sleeping Dogs

In Ashmolean Museum, dogs, mongrels, Poetry, Stubbs, Van Dyck by Kate Innes15th February 2015

A Dog lying on a Ledge by a Genoese Artist (circa 1650-1680)Ashmolean Museum, Oxford This painting caught my eye when I was last in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.  The …

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Robin Redbreast and the Wren

In Birds, Medieval Bestiaries, Poetry, Robin, Sherbourne Missal, Symbolism, The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy by Kate Innes30th December 2014

Robin from the Sherbourne Missal, c. 1400, BL Add. MS 74236 Fascination with birds is something I will admit to, although I am not a bird watcher except in the …

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