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Released | Flight Feather
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. We’d always got by, somehow. But now there was nothing:. A wallet of air;. My card spat out. At my foolish, balloon face;. And the shopping trapped. In the trolley’s cage. At the foodbank store, the winding metal door clanks back;. A harvest, sealed under pressure, jostles on the shelves,. Enter your emai...
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Against the odds | Poietic Spaces
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Participation, everyday life and other stuff. Bringing temporality to intervention practice and evaluation. Competing to be public →. November 22, 2012. The last couple of Fridays my MA Childhood and Youth Studies (MACYS) students and I have been visiting the South London children’s charity Kids Company. Is another one) and I’m really pleased that my MACYS students have been able to also get a small taste of what the organization is about. This entry was posted in Teaching. Competing to be public →.
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Convict Lads 1836-46: Friendship and Survival | Conviction
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Stories from a nineteenth-century prison. Convict Lads 1836-46: Friendship and Survival. October 16, 2014. This is a version of papers I gave at the European Social Science History Conference (Vienna 2014) and the British Crime Historians Symposium (Liverpool 2014). It explores what we can learn from multiple historical records about the friendship networks and survival strategies of boys and young men, transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1830s and 1840s. The Tasmanian convict records provide a rich ...
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Slippery Customers | Flight Feather
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. It seemed so simple, planned over a pint:. Buy a black-market swarm of glass eels. To raise in a tank in his shed. As he sprinkles crushed crayfish, sees. Ugly eel underbites vie at the surface,. He thinks of his sleek, fat profit. He watches them grow to young elvers,. Insinuating ways. Their humour.
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. A virtual ...
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The Drowned Lands | Flight Feather
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. Digging since dawn, bent slant. Against the whistling wind, crushing. With sweet scent the water mint under my boots,. Face whipped by willow; unsteady,. I cling to the iron shove-handlers, feeling like a pennant. Run up a flagpole; hood rippling with gusts. Raise mud-plated feet amongst the winter wheat.
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In the beginning | Flight Feather
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. In the plush darkness. There is no-one to see. The flowering-forth of planets. In bristling blue scabious. And purple lobelia;. The rings beginning to hum. Round a restless sphere. Earth, leafed like a cabbage,. Held in place by winking pins,. Froths with euphorbia, a wave of still surf;. Ten Years Time &...
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For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles | Flight Feather
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. The sisters see the face of a fish in an oyster-shell;. Limpets as his scales; driftwood, his fins. The sisters are earth-combers, fine-fingered. Through them, creation is unpicked. Around them, the world is re-ordered:. On a pull of the thread, rucked and buckled,.
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Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012 | Flight Feather
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The poetry blog of Elaine Ewart. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Celebrating Octavia Hill (1832-1912). For the artists of Fen Edge Textiles. Selling Radman’s Grey. Not a Poem: 30th August 2013. Poems of the Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Here are some of the poems I have written, mainly by commission, as Fenland Poet Laureate 2012. Please click on the titles on the menu bar above. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. ELCA Young...