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School’s Fun at Ledbury Poetry Festival
The international poetry festival launched this year’s schools programme with a big flavour of international fun.Poets Sara Hirsch (New Zealand) Valerie Bloom (Jamaica) and Mike Barfield (UK) had children roaring with laughter and creating poetry from unexpected sources. There were lots to learn about forms and language and even a crash course in Jamaican Patois.Boys […]
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Drownd Guillemot
The Clearing magazine commissioned seven writers to mark the Remembrance Day of Lost Species. These pieces are not eulogies. Although they respond to the grief and disorientation of our times, they are also songs of hope and memory, commitment and renewal. I was touched by Pippa Marland’s essay on November 30th 2018 “the impacts of an altered […]
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Christmas Carol Service
Having fun with digital designing the order of service for a carol service at Worcester Cathedral in December 2018. The theme is to shine a light on community and togetherness. The purple and silver colours are to fit with the Univesity of Worcester’s own campaign “shine a light on mental wellness.” Some look a little […]
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EXTRA SPECIAL AWARD
An extra special award for the author of Max & Luchia the Game Makers. Kevin Brooke, who studied Creative Writing and English Literature at Worcester, is the fifth recipient of the Clothiers Company of Worcester Charitable Foundation’s Annual Award. The Clothiers Company of Worcester is an ancient trade guild, which was granted a Royal Charter by Queen […]
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Spanish Flu Exhibition
George Marshall Medical Museum’s Touring Exhibition 2019 I was honoured to have the opportunity to illustrate #Influenza100 #Spanishflu exhibition and workshops collection from the George Marshall Medical Museum. In January 2019 the collection of research they have gathered will inform the themes and activities for public and school workshops. Funded by the British Society for the […]
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Book Launch Success
Max & Luchia The Game Makers has had a fantastic first run! 120+ people came to the book’s launch party at the Hive library Worcester and we sold about 62 copies. ‘This book is a wonderful adventure! I really enjoyed reading about how the children played ‘Ma-Chia’ and I always hoped they would […]
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WW1 Motherhood and Loss
The project is in partnership with the Royal Holloway University of London and the Institute of Historical Research. Motherhood, Loss and the First World War will share community-researched stories of women bereaved during the First World War, bringing to light their experiences and inviting communities across the country to remember them. The project will have […]
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Prefoming Poetry
Worcester 42 is a group who meet once a month to share stories of the gothic and poems of the unusual. My Attempt. Brewing Debate Dear listener, do not shed any tears, our nan has few fears. Wartime child with sharp eyes, horror holds no surprise. Just, never mess up her cup of tea! take […]
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Max & Luchia: the game makers
Set in a fantastic fairytale landscape of mountains, forests, caves and oceans, even a castle. Max and his sister Luchia have to battle jesters and giants to name a few, all to win the game level by level until they can truly become the game makers themselves. Written by the author Kevin Brooke, I’ve been […]
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Blue Angels
December 2017 I was so happy to except a commission from Worcester Cathedral for a set of three lino cuts to symbolise the mindfulness of pray. The images were to be used in a carol service brochure that Christmas tide. . . .
Blue Falcon Words & Pictures
Lets Create!
Blue Falcon Words & Pictures 