Today I am about to start contacting potential supervisors for my dream PhD project and I’m celebrating in a corny way… by posting about a poem being published by Ink, Sweat and Tears (@IS&T). The poem is one from my MA manuscript that features poetry about being Anglo-Romany, being in state run children’s homes and […]
For a Friend
I haven’t been posting for a while – I blame the rigours of an MA at the totally awesome Corsham Court campus of Bath Spa University. However, I wanted to post this poem, written some months ago and published at: https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/09/karen-downs-barton.html The Otolith. It was written for a friend, Reuben Woolly, who sadly died last week […]
Ends and Beginnings of Eras!
I have been absent from the wonders of a posting for a while as I had a thesis to create/submit, a masters place to apply for, taken on babysitting duties for one pretty active two year old and am nursing an abandoned cat back to happiness. However, I have now completed my BA (Hons) […]
Personified Hive Life
Hive Life Unnaturally still in summer clothes; the control such motionless- ness must take. Balancing disks of blossom heads tempting flights of fancy hats. Coronated, I’m answering an inner buzz, barely concealing the furry fuzzing from shoulders, age whiskering my face. Perhaps I’m barbed, poised, flight ready, a wings whisk away from the […]
