Michelle Scally Clarke
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Words Hanging off Trees
If it was possible to encapsulate ten years’ work, to show how two groups of young writers and their writing developed over a decade, then this anthology, released by Ilkley Literature Festival to celebrate young writers in Ilkley and Bradford, would be that encapsulation. It has been one of the finest privileges of my working…
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No More Unseeing, Please
My friend and colleague, poet Michelle Scally Clarke responds to a Maya Angelou quote and to police brutality in the poem below. This is posted with her kind permission. With George Floyd’s murder, the conversation about institutional police racism in the States has gone global. We can no longer unsee the issue, although time and…
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Michelle Pfeiffer – adoptive mother
We all know that Madonna and Angelina Jolie have adopted children but many other female celebrities such as actors Jamie Lee Curtis and the focus of this week’s blog Michelle Pfeiffer have done so too. Pfeiffer’s career is well-known so I’m not going to focus on that here, except for a little confession to say…