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A life of mending

Brighton and Hove environment Jackie Wills Jane Sybilla Fordham mending poetry Salt Publishing sewing

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Not a sun or moon

February 11, 2026

Jane Sybilla Fordham Making the Wedding Dress poetry Powder Tower Salt Publishing TS Eliot prize

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Half price sedation

November 15, 2025

calm care quiet sedation wellbeing words

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Pantywaist looking for work

October 07, 2025

Books and Debate language old old women poetry retirement

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All the time in the world

August 18, 2025

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Table and chair

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Gardens, responsibility and conflict

care gardening gardens poetry warzone

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Dove on the steps

Dove gardening procrastination

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Time and its manifesto

care Colson Whitehead companies crime crooks excuses language local authorities politics retail time

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Living curtains of vines

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Rita Dove, Rosa Parks, sewing and poems

clothes fabrics Rita Dove Rosa Parks sewing

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Stories of cloth

cloth clothes sewing Utrecht

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Try praying

February 14, 2025

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Making the Wedding Dress

Cover image Jane Sybilla Fordham. Forthcoming from Salt 2026

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- Check out @ Mrisi _ for brilliant music and spoken word
- Stunning work from Giya Makondo-Wills photographer

: I'm a UK writer. My seventh collection of poetry is published by Salt.

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Cover painting: Allotment by Jane Sybilla Fordham

Poems on earth, badger paths, on being a slow worm and getting older

Words for women

Now on 4th version. The first was published in Binders Full of Women, 2012

Woman's Head as Jug

Cover painting, The Five Sisters of Suduireaut by Jane Fordham.

Blacksmith

from Woman's Head as Jug

How I write

Royal Literary Fund podcast

Royal Literary Fund showcase

Discussion with poet Geoff Hattersley

Poem for a path

Between Footsteps was commissioned by potter Julian Belmonte for a path at Farnham Maltings in Surrey

Lovers' Triptych, a poem commissioned by Helen Storey

The forensic dress

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