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    Telling the Bees | Stories, Superstitions and Gossip in Newspapers Written for our Ancestors
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • May 6
    • 10 min

    Telling the Bees | Stories, Superstitions and Gossip in Newspapers Written for our Ancestors

    A scrapbook of selected stories, superstitions, and gossip that featured in historical British newspapers. A window on the everyday...
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    Poetry Review: 'Fleet' by Jane Burn
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Mar 27
    • 4 min

    Poetry Review: 'Fleet' by Jane Burn

    Fleet | a poetic drama of a shapeshifting Hare | a fable for the modern world |
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    Poetry Review | 'Fan-Peckled': Twelve Old Shropshire Words in Poems & Pictures J. Atkin & K. Alston
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Apr 22, 2021
    • 5 min

    Poetry Review | 'Fan-Peckled': Twelve Old Shropshire Words in Poems & Pictures J. Atkin & K. Alston

    An intuitive collaboration between Jean Atkin and Katy Alston, Fan-Peckled explores idiomatic language of historic Shropshire.
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    Course Review | Ledbury Poetry Festival Linklater Method Voice Coaching for Poets 2021
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Mar 31, 2021
    • 3 min

    Course Review | Ledbury Poetry Festival Linklater Method Voice Coaching for Poets 2021

    Ledbury Poetry Festival's fifth annual Linklater Method Voice Coaching for new and emerging poets was held online this year. Françoise Walot
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    Guerrilla Poetry Project | Strangers Speaking
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    Guerrilla Poetry Project | Strangers Speaking

    ‘Strangers Speaking’: a guerrilla poetry project, written for those who feel lonely in a crowd...when experiences cannot be shared or spoken
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    Poetry Review | 'Hierarchy of Needs': reimagining Maslow's theory, bringing plant life into focus
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Jan 26, 2021
    • 4 min

    Poetry Review | 'Hierarchy of Needs': reimagining Maslow's theory, bringing plant life into focus

    ‘Hierarchy of Needs’ is nuanced and skilfully written. Voices of animated plants and those of humans observe their interactions and interdep
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    Winter lockdown: the hermit's hut and the significance of lamplight in forced isolation
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Jan 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    Winter lockdown: the hermit's hut and the significance of lamplight in forced isolation

    Winter encourages us to be creaturely: to retreat from the elements and inhabit interior space. In darkness there are reasons to create ligh
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    Poetry Review: 'I, Ursula' by Ruth Stacey
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Nov 11, 2020
    • 4 min

    Poetry Review: 'I, Ursula' by Ruth Stacey

    Through variety of form and evocative language, an ensemble of impressive voices builds, including several historical muses.
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    Course Review: Lucid Dreaming for Artists, Writers & Creatives: Online with Leah Larwood #TheMoonLab
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Oct 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    Course Review: Lucid Dreaming for Artists, Writers & Creatives: Online with Leah Larwood #TheMoonLab

    Course Review: Lucid Dreaming for Artists, Writers & Creatives: Online with Leah Larwood #The Moon Lab
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    Book Review: These Are The Hands: A Personal Reflection (Part Two)
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    Book Review: These Are The Hands: A Personal Reflection (Part Two)

    As one contributor to the anthology I feel that that I am among colleagues despite never having worked with any of the other contributors
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    Book Review: These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. (Part One)
    Margaret Adkins Writing
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 5 min

    Book Review: These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS. (Part One)

    NHS care is a constant, continuous force generated by thousands from various disciplines and departments, contributing...unstinting effort
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