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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Caught in a blizzard – poem
Photos by Robin – Sisterhood in the 60s Trapped in the cottage during a blizzard we manage to light the old gas lamp hanging on a chain on the ceiling, coax half a bucket of water from the well, find a … Continue reading
More snow and a longer poem
Timeless As snow transforms foliage into icy fingers the bus crawls caterpillar-like up the hill the seagulls’ feet thump on our flat bedroom roof and greenfinches wait in an orderly queue to swing on bird feeders in our … Continue reading
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A tiny bit of snow and a small poem.
A white veil falls over the face of the world slowly freezing time. An award winning blog for a ‘blog that brightens our day’ Poetry collections ‘The Puppeteer’s Daughter’ and ‘Don’t Throw Away the Daisies’
Happy New year with 101 pics from last year’s blogs
Pighog poetry nights, Tom McGuinness’s Art, Rottingdean’s wishing stone, Mark Doty at the Troubadour, fishing and sunsets. Paris, Paul’s Punch and Judy, Foxton Lock, my harp teacher Andrew Ballantyne, the lovely lady in the Olde Tea Shop in Rottingdean who … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann-Marie Fyth, Bickerstaff fisherisies, Brighton - out and about, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Finding my feet in Brighton, Flowers/Garden/Allotment, Mosaic, Nature - birds, Out and about in Brighton, Out and about in London, Paris, Photography, Pighog poetry poets, poetry workshops, Rottingdean, Rottingdean's wishing stone, Sand sculpture, Sea life, Seascapes, snow, Sunsets, The Weald Allotment, Tom McGuinness's art
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Snow talk
seagulls watch and wait blobs of snow blot out the sea a soft silent world
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Tagged Brighton - out and about, Fragment - tiny poems - snow talk, Fragments - tiny poems - 'Snow talk', Out and about in Brighton, Photography, Saltdean, Seagulls, Seagulls in the snow, snow, snow haiku 2, Snow talk
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