Some good news in my writing career! Thank you to the wonderful people at @bentkeypublish for featuring my poem ‘The Dream of Green Metropolis’ in their next publication, ‘Ey Up’✨ I’m excited to see this one in print!
potential baby jackdaws in our chimney breast. they keep popping their heads into our living room to say hello. yet another classic ben interaction who has pinned all hopes of future fortune on trading with befriended crows.
Meetings and Greetings, by Sue Atkinson, 1949-2021 (private collection). Daughter of a Bradford wool merchant, worked in the Wakefield area. #WomenArtists
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My favourite thing about living in the Calder valley is that you encounter so many examples of working-class history just sitting there in plain sight. Clog-worn factory steps, crumbling stone walls, old tracks and cobbled roads. I wrote a poem last year about it.
A truly wonderful @InkSpillPoetry session yesterday🤍 Some incredible pieces created and shared, and lots of lovely new faces! Next month’s theme is ‘Woman’ ✨
Terraced Houses, Yorkshire, 1968, by Bingley-born Herbert Whone. Painter and violinist, became deputy leader of Scottish National Orchestra. His parents were both employed in the cloth mills.