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.
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Reflections for Remembrance Day.
It’s Remembrance day tomorrow, it happens to be a Sunday. I always preferred it when they marked Remembrance on Nov 11th, whatever the day of the week it was. The traffic in Central London always stopped at … Continue reading
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The cleft palate – Mrs Shufflebottom – and a poem
The Blitz On a warm sunny Sunday in Middlesex hospital in London amidst the buzz of bombs I slipped from my mother’s womb with blue eyes and a cleft palate and a smile that it was said soothed the souls … Continue reading
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