It’s April, which means National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. What is National Poetry Writing Month? The challenge of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem a day for 30 days, and there are various lovely prompts and communities of writers working across the… Read more
The Rattle Ekphrastic Results are out! Thank you so much, Rattle, for choosing my work your Ekphrastic Challenge this February. If you have a minute at all, do go and look at Mary Meriam’s beautiful ghazal, ‘Homemaker’., which was my favourite for the Ekphrastic challenge… Read more
I bought a manual typewriter with my unexpected Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge windfall! This means I get to experiment with text cut-outs from my own poetry. I have a quick-fire response to the Visual Verse Challenge that’s just up on their website. As a springboard, I’ve… Read more
During January I’ve been experimenting with dioramas and playing with the idea of paper theatres, mixing and matching found text and characters, and wondering how I’d send these out to people – posted ephemera. Some of them are tri-folds, with tiny words on silk thread,… Read more
One of my favourite projects this year came late and was a crazy zine-like collaboration. Although chapbooks and poetry publications can be tricky for visual poets, it was a joy to work with Rare Swan Press on a hybrid project; the owl stories of the… Read more
And how happy I am to be in Thrush Journal this November. Alongside some amazing poetry from amazing poets. https://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/november-2021-sarah-jane-crowson.html That’s all the alt-constellations out, waltzing through the world. I wish them well.
Here she is, a strange, booklost creature, dreaming of stars: And you can download her on this link. If you credit me that’s lovely, but I don’t mind if you don’t. It’s an Autumn present.
Collage using paper and digital techniques. Images from a contemporary fashion magazine, Wood and Sowerby (1859) The common objects of the sea shore : including hints for an aquarium and an amazing illustration showing the mouths of birds.
A paper theatre populated by a selection of imaginary deities, found text and iffy iambic pentameter.
Last four days.