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BREEZE; Poetry in the Breeze
When the breeze flits across your brow, and the grass pokes through the spaces between your toes, a particular feeling…
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Go East To Nurture
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Christmas Dreams 11
Literature
This is a section of literature and poetry articles on the new website, more will follow shortly.
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TRIM; The Type
“Read creative words Find the deeper meaning there Oh how it can change” – Renee Umsted People rush to…
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ROOTS; The Books That Made Families Epic
Family is the most important of our bonds, it is the rock that made us grow up and taught us…
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ROOTS; Seven Writers, Seven Novels.
I had always thought of myself as a playwright but five years ago virtually stopped writing drama. Instead I wrote…
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The Magic of Bowerbirds
Birds are some of the most fascinating creatures in the animal kingdom. Some put on the most startling but beautiful…
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Sterling: 52 Remarkable Women Debunking the Myths About Feminism
Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies, curated by Scarlett Curtis I remember one Christmas, at about seven years old,…
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Woven: Man Booker Storytellers
The art of weaving words and imagination together to make a story is a tradition as ancient as humanity itself. Storytelling…
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The Wonderful World Of Weird Plants
Plant Pictured Above: ‘HOOKER’S LIPS’: Psychotria eleta (Fraudster) Plants. They surround us through all seasons. However, most of the time we walk…
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Woven; Ambit
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.” The written word can stand to be the greatest…
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Woven: Literature and Painting Intertwined
‘The footprint of books is everywhere in history, and their visual depiction is – quietly but insistently – everywhere in…
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Shelter; Female Creatives- The Ghosts of History
Orbiting. A word used in a speech made at the Human Rights Campaign’s National Dinner by Anne Hathaway, where she accepted …
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Un-Crushable
Mornington shook his head sorrowfully. You can’t go looking that, he said. What’s wrong with it? You look like an…
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Hollywood by canoe
Rain kept them grounded in the jungle throughout July. The landscape liquified into rivers the same red-brown colour as the…
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GABRIELLA’S WEDDING
Everyone, even silly old me, was surprised that Barnaby Harrington was getting married but when Gabriella personally handed me the…
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Dead Man’s Shirt
On the hook in my bedroom–a dead man’s shirt…royal blue. Underneath it, the shirt my ex-husband got married in. It’s…
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Clothes Don’t Break the Man
The first thing I always told people about her was, “That bag, she was interviewed… just so they could say…
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Worldly; Pinkification
“Ew, its pink” was my automatic response anytime a family member or friend gifted me a girly toy. I detested…
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Glitz; Tales of Hollywood’s Golden Era
It’s 2001 and at 90-years old, Mildred Shay, a former actress nicknamed “Pocket Venus” – better known for her glamorous…