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  • Heart Poems for Children’s Heart Week – all week at Rebecca Goss’ blog 12 – 18 May

    Heart Poems for Children’s Heart Week – all week at Rebecca Goss’ blog 12 – 18 May

    Originally posted on Rebecca Goss: MONDAY: THE CHILDREN’S HEART FEDERATION The Children’s Heart Federation is the leading children’s heart charity and direct service provider as well as the umbrella body for voluntary organisations; working to meet the needs of children and young people with congenital and acquired heart conditions and their families.  Their vision is… Read more

  • Spring in my step!

    Spring in my step!

    I thought I’d do another post as a response to the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge which, this week, is Spring!  I’m enjoying the many pictures and descriptions of birds, flowers and wildlife which are cropping up all over Instagram, Facebook and all the usual social media places, as well as on WordPress blogs, of course. I Read more

  • The generosity of public poems

    The generosity of public poems

    Some news that made me stop and think this week was the announcement of the death of Gerard Benson, one of the founders of Poems on the Underground.  I didn’t know Gerard Benson or his writing but I have benefitted hugely from reading poems posted behind the straphangers on London’s tube trains. The scheme started Read more

  • Very pleased to tell you…

    Very pleased to tell you…

    I’m very pleased to tell you that tall-lighthouse is going to publish a pamphlet of about twenty of my poems in late 2014. I’m still working on a title and have spent much of today sitting on my stripy rug, scribbling down ideas, as well as going for a muddy walk to help me think. Read more

  • Beyond the Ning Nang Nong.

    Beyond the Ning Nang Nong.

    Sharing your poetry books with children. Children seem very open to writing, reading and talking about poetry.   I’ve never heard a child say, as I’ve heard plenty of adults say, “Oh, I don’t really get poetry.” I’ve mentioned before that, since they were 11 and 12 (they’re now 13 and 14), I’ve taken my own children Read more

  • Some where skys are blue

    Some where skys are blue

    This week’s photo challenge from WordPress is ‘Letters’ and it’s reminded me of a picture that my daughter, Kitty, created ten years ago when she was four years old.  She hadn’t long learned to write, you can tell from the careful way she formed these letters, some of them with a tiny curl or tail, in readiness Read more