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My old flat, taken on my lumix - must take and share more! It’s a tough book and a beautiful book this one. Shows you just how open forms can be, through poems, fragments, diaries rearranged, word of mouth, newspaper clippings. Seamless. And the pain, god the pain, of losing a loved one, violently. Such a bright spark, a young woman on the cusp of coming into her own, fighting the bullshit system. A celebration of Jane’s voice and so much left unsaid, implied, through the gaps. It’s a deeply personal account of loss, the weight of trauma. Hey friends. I have been writing and reckoning recently. Proper writing, outside the newsletter. And I greatly look forward to seeing these ideas fully baked because lordy lord they feel important. Big girl writing I’d say. The girls I live with have heard me mulling this stuff over for a few months now. As in continual penny dropping. And I can see these coins are going into an essay collection. The crackle of your partially-deaf -although he'd never admit it- dad shouting down the speaker phone as he paints the sunniest room in the house, the one with a view of a field and a telephone pylon and sometimes very pregnant sheep squabbling over turnips, defeating expectations and getting even bigger with a couple of lambs brewing away inside of them. I’ve been lapping up the sunshine and wearing about 5 layers everywhere this week. My body is also telling me to rest after whirring round like a little machine since Christmas, flurried on by the promise of the energy of the new year. This included me rolling my ankle last week but we’re all good now 🙄 Some hot takes on Laura Marling’s Song for Our Daughter as part of our talk with @du___arts for their Student Art Prize. This week I’ve been thinking about connection over sinking, and cultivating active hope over fear. This week I wrote about shadow-making and being a child a play. I also took a deep dive into @kaetempest’s wonderful essay, On Connection, which offers up so much about how we can live richer lives through creativity. Newsletter #4 is out, on the alienation of anecdotes, why art writing isn’t relatable, and the doom of existing in a quasi-Dickensian time.

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