The hole in the wall
A little boy looks into a dry stone wall and imagines who might inhabit it. Poem with illustrations. A6 softback (postcard size) 24 pages.
Words and illustrations by Ann Perrin
Produced by The Dry Stone Walling Education ProjectThe Puppeteers Daughter
The poems explore the complexity of life as the daughter of marionette makers and performers. There are poems concerned with life, love and loss, also the seaside, artists, allotments and the eccentricities of life.
Buy now - £6.60Don’t Throw Away the Daisies (illustrated)
Ann’s poetry covers the big topics of love and death with originality. Take for instance the title poem which is full of surprises yet also wonderfully poignant.
Tag Archives: life
As autumn approaches – a poem – a visit to Emmetts – bits and pieces.
I enjoyed painting an image for another of my poems – could become a habit! An award-winning blog for a ‘blog that brightens our day’ 1. Emmetts Robin savours the smell of the toffee tree (Katsura tree) Love the Persian … Continue reading
In and out of April
In and out of April decluttering manic moods losing weight swimming seed potatoes chittering sun cheating clouds racing resolutions falling into the waste basket the dark green bird box made by a nuclear engineer in Birmingham only ever had two … Continue reading
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The end of the beach hut?
This was supposed to be a poem but ended up as prose, but then anything is an improvement on the blank page! The end of the beach hut Sitting in battered beach hut, rusty bolts, badly … Continue reading
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Tagged beach huts, Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Creativity, Grandparents, life, Lifestyle, lifesyle, Nature - birds, Out and about in Brighton, Photography, Retirement, sea or country, the end of an era, the end of our beach hut, The joys of beach huts
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‘Time and tide wait for no man’
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A sense of place
from our garden we can see the cycle of the seasons on the farm on the hill.
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Right place right time!
Ann Sansom at the Poetry School Frankly one just hopes that being in the presence of such a warm but powerful and gritty poet, with two full length collections ‘Romance’ and In Praise of Men and Other People’, and countless … Continue reading
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Microlighting over the allotment
Maybe he was trying to find somewhere soft to land, glad it wasn’t in our pond, it had taken all afternoon to remove all the algae so the frogs actually have room to swim! The … Continue reading
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Tagged Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, cherries, frogs, growing garlic, life, Microlight over the Weald, microlights, Out and about in Brighton, Photography, The Weald Allotment
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