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June 3 Poetry for Wild-Life, Much Wenlock

Ruthie Lowe has organised a poetry fundraising event at Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre WORDS FROM THE WILD-LIFE An evening of poetry with some outstanding poets!  (says the Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre events page about this Poetry fundraiser I will be reading at!) Come and hear: Chris Kinsey (BBC Wildlife poet of the year 2008) Keith […]

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With One Swallow… DIVERSIFLY BLOG #3

“One Swallow Does Not a Summer Make, neither does one fine day” I never knew, until googling it now – that this saying is attributed to Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) The Oxford Dictionary says this of the Swallows saying:proverb: A single fortunate event doesn’t mean that what follows will also be good. It seems to […]

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Words from the Wild-life, event

An evening of poetry with some outstanding poets!  (says the Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre events page about this Poetry fundraiser I will be reading at!) Come and hear: Chris Kinsey (BBC Wildlife poet of the year 2008) Keith Chandler Nadia Kingsley And  more Tickets £10 in aid of Cuan Wildlife Rescue available from [email protected] Saturday […]

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Cor! It’s Spring… DIVERSIFLY BLOG #1

Around where I live, you can tell when spring is coming when there is a marked change in the birdsong. And this starts in January; building, building into such excited chatter by May Day that it is almost too much to bear. Before that, the soundtrack of our winter is held together by Crow, Rook and by […]

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Examples of Nadia Kingsley & Giancarlo Facchinetti’s recent work

1. Click below to listen to/download the fifth out of nine ‘chapters’ – recorded from a live continuous performance in a mobile planetarium dome, which was performed at Birmingham Art & Science Festival,Wenlock Poetry Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and Birmingham Literature Festival. Music/soundscapes: Giancarlo Facchinetti. Voices, in order of appearance: Professor Trevor Ponman, astrophysicist; Emma Purshouse – poet; Nadia Kingsley […]

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West Midlands Children’s Poetry book beats adult books to scoop Poetry Category of Rubery Book Awards 2016

Press Release 8 July 2016 – from Fair Acre Press. For further information contact Nadia at [email protected] I once Knew a Poem Who Wore a Hat –  Poetry by Wolverhampton’s Emma Purshouse –  Pictures by Solihull’s Catherine Pascall Moore –  Published by Oswestry -based Fair Acre Press, and edited by the Shropshire Press’ Nadia Kingsley […]

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Winner of Poetry Category, Rubery Book Awards 2016

Well – this news was completely unexpected! And absolutely wonderful: Emma Purshouse and Catherine Pascall Moore’s children’s poetry book: I Once Knew a Poem Who Wore a Hat is the the POETRY CATEGORY WINNER in the Rubery Book Awards 2016!! For more details go here This is what the judges said about the book: Lots of […]

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Book News here at Fair Acre Press

Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower should arrive by courier at both Lisa, and Fair Acre Press’ door on 26th February Its official publication date is not until April 28th 2016 but it can be pre-ordered at Wenlock Books (go here) It is a wonderful novel of a family at the time of the 2010 election, […]

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