Would you like YOUR poem to be included in the Poetry on Stinging Nettles ebook ? – which will be available to buy from February 2016; and will be adorned by this wonderfully atmospheric cover by artist Peter Tinkler If so – check back here in January 2016 – to see how to submit your poem(s) […]
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artist Peter Tinkler – on Stinging Nettles cover art
I have known Peter Tinkler for some years now – in fact – it must have been ten years since we first started spending time together – ALWAYS with the one proviso – on my part: that Peter has to bring his sketch books with him ! Peter was educated in Ireland, studied illustration and animation in […]
Podcast on Jonathan Edwards
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Jonathan Edwards. How would you write about – a seal, a hippopotamus, your grandfather? Jonathan also treats us to poems about Houdini, the Covent Garden Theatre in 1775, his father and reveals how he approaches a subject. In conversation with Nadia Kingsley, Jonathan Edwards reads and discusses some of […]
the Poetry on Grey Squirrels ebook cover
Would you like YOUR poem to be included in the Poetry on Grey Squirrels ebook? – which will be available to buy from February 2016; and will be adorned by this wonderfully grey and fluffy-tailed cover by artist Rhys Bevan Jones If so – check back here in January 2016 – to see how to submit your […]
A Winter Solstice Cheer !!
Thank you all so very much for your interest and support – in sharing, retweeting, and pledging money to our Kickstarter campaign – which closes in a couple of hours but has already reached its target… and beyond !! I can’t tell you how grateful and humbled I am by your support – and so […]
artist Rhys Bevan Jones – on Grey Squirrels cover art
Rhys Bevan Jones and I are cousins. His design in 1999 was chosen as the logo for the Bro’r Preseli Urdd National Eisteddfod in Crymych, and I have inherited, from my mother, a wonderful original cartoon by Rhys: “The life and times of food and drink – A carrot and I” – which was runner up […]
help !
As some of you will know I am currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter – to raise some of the money needed to publish a WONDERFUL children’s poetry book – with poems by Emma Purshouse, and illustrator Catherine Pascall Moore. Up until now I have personally paid for all publications at Fair Acre Press – but […]
Podcast on Liz Lefroy
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Liz Lefroy How would you write about – Michelangelo’s David, your son’s school concert, or a busker in London? Liz tells us how she approaches a subject, and also treats us to some fact-based poems from her pamphlet Mending the Ordinary, and poems written about parts of an […]
the Poetry on Frogs ebook cover
Would you like YOUR poem to be included in the Poetry on Frogs ebook? – which will be available to buy from February 2016; and will be adorned by this wonderfully delightful cover by artist Paul Kielty If so – check back here in January 2016 – to see how to submit your poem(s) The Maligned Species […]
artist Paul Kielty – on Frogs cover art
Paul Kielty and Fair Acre Press’ editor, Nadia Kingsley, have been friends and colleagues for over 15 years. Paul was educated in Ireland He studied Animation at the University of Wolverhampton – and that’s where they first met. “It’s a close friendship – through ‘tick and tin’ – he has been there. I have seen him on […]
