writing highlights

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    Writing in Context

    This will be my last blog on this website, perhaps forever.  It isn’t as dramatic as it sounds. After many years of thinking about what I would write about (i.e. procrastinating), feedback from you, and valued support from Arts Council England via a DYCP grant, I have finally become part of the Substack writing community.…

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  • Photo by Jonathan Turner @jonturner on Instagram of extract of artwork Left: On gridded paper printed on grey cloth part of a poem with phrases separated by back slashes and spaces: …nonising to lasses\ \Addle us enough\ \eye-to-eye\ \if we’re sick Right and centre: Patchwork of hexagons in different materials and muted colours interspersed by patches of ephemera e.g., a patch that includes a label with the following text: The WIRA Fineness Meter and Made at the Wool Industries Research Association Leeds and another with: I was set to spinning and doing jobs; any work that wanted doing. My knees are bent inward, ligaments relaxed. I can scarcely abide to walk up and down the room. Sometimes I am bad and am forced to go home. Blue stitches cross the gridded paper and some of the patchwork.

    Can a highlights list mean anything now?

    As has become tradition for bloggers, I wanted to share the highlights of my writing year.

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