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 […]
Tag Archives | Emma Purshouse
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 […]
Fancy sponsoring a Children’s poetry book?
I am currently running a crowdfunding (kickstarter) campaign to raise money to help with the costs of printing a children’s poetry book: I am personally funding the printing of the book – because I am so proud and happy to be able to – and because the poems are tried and tested in front of […]
Podcast on Poet Emma Purshouse
Welcome ! Here is a podcast with poet Emma Purshouse How would you write about – a butterfly called the Essex Skipper, the fact that astrophysicists can only account for about 4% of the Universe, or the eradication of smallpox? In conversation with Nadia Kingsley, Emma Purshouse reads and discusses some of her poems, and […]
Asking for help ~ a children’s poetry book by Emma Purshouse
I am very proud to announce that Fair Acre Press will be publishing Emma Purshouse’s first-ever book of children’s poetry on the 28th April 2016 It will be jam-packed full of her very funny, clever, and begging-to-be-read aloud poems – like this little gem: Anony Mouse Anony Mouse is quite prolific When it comes to writing […]
Introducing the Maligned Species team: Emma Purshouse
Poet, Writer, Performer, Emma Purshouse. Emma Purshouse says: Maligned Species: Poetry. Science. And you.
Why Maligned Species?
Why are we running this project? Our editor, Nadia Kingsley noticed that, when she was editing our very first book Shropshire Butterflies – a poetic and artistic guide to the butterflies of Shropshire that there is an accepted general love for butterflies, and a general dislike for moths – some of which are far more […]
e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: the History of the Universe in 45 minutes
Above are Giancarlo Facchinetti, Emma Purshouse, Nadia Kingsley and Professor Trevor Ponman – together they are the e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g team and whisked 3 full-domes (instead of full-houses!) of people up into space, at the Birmingham Art and Science Festival 2015 on the 17th March. We would like to thank the University of Birmingham – a […]
e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g: The History of the Universe in 45 minutes. Performance dates
Here are some festival dates – in case you want a make a note. They are also on the Fair Acre Press’ events page. Thank you to the festivals so much for hosting us ! And to Arts Council England who has supported the whole project You’ll see that Emma Purshouse and Nadia Kingsley are […]
WHAT POETRY/POET AND/OR COLLECTION IS YOUR INSPIRATION?
This was a question I was recently asked to answer – on behalf of Wenlock Poetry Festival and their search for the second ever Shropshire Young Poet Laureate. It was one of several questions. The answers that I and other poetry lovers gave can be found on http://www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org/laureate/ Unfortunately I got somewhat carried away – there wasn’t […]
