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Incidentals

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:1st December 2018
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4Word is very proud to announce the launch of our latest pamphlet (our fifth) – Incidentals by Mary Gilonne. Mary weaves elegant tapestries of language, where every word is stitched…

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Coming on Christmas

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:6th November 2018
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It’s coming on Christmas – so sang Joni Mitchell, and indeed it is. As usual, it’s caught up with me long before I’m ready. However, if your friends or family…

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Ode To Autumn

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:27th September 2018
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Ode To Autumn. Autumn is upon us and Rachael Clyne’s outstanding pamphlet, Girl Golem, has received a brilliant review from Fiona Sinclair, editor of Message in a Bottle poetry magazine.…

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Hot and Homesick

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:23rd August 2018
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.  ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care…

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Send Rain

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:29th July 2018
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Until yesterday, we had had no rain in Dorset for over nine weeks, combined with day after day of temperatures hovering around the high twenties, low thirties. My sun-baked poetry…

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Girl Golem by Rachael Clyne

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:9th July 2018
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  I first came across Rachael Clyne as a member of 52, the online poetry group and workshop which was the brainchild of Jo Bell. Rachael’s work never failed to…

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A Cat Can Look at a King

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:6th June 2018
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‘In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.’ (Terry Pratchett) Recently I was following a Facebook thread with interest and some dismay, where a fellow…

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Happen It’s Poetry.

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:19th May 2018
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‘All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity…….’ David Bowie The snippet from Auden’s poem, In Memory of W.B. Yeats, that ‘poetry makes nothing happen…’ is…

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Readings

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:9th May 2018
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I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.   Spike Milligan  I’ve recently returned from a…

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Launch Day

  • Post author:Lesley Quayle
  • Post published:1st May 2018
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Today is THE day. We are delighted (and more than a bit excited :-) ) to announce the official launch of the new 4Word pamphlets from Lesley Quayle, Stella Wulf…

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