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Poetry by Mexican Women Writers

22nd September 202124th September 2021  Lucy Writers

Usha Akella and Pramila Venkateswaran present the second collection of poems by Mexican women poets – Ana Belén López, Natalie Toledo, Elsa Cross, Maria Baranda and Mariana Bernardez – held in honour of Matwaala’s 2021 Festival of Poets of Colour series.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Ana Belén López, Carolina V.Zapata, Clare Sullivan, Elsa Cross, Juan M. Esquivel, Maria Baranda, Mariana Bernardez, Matwaala, Mexican Poets, Mexican Women Writers, mexico, Natalia Toledo, nature, nature writing, Octavio Paz, Paul Hoover, Poetry, Pramila Venkateswaran, Susan Ayres, Translation, Usha Akella

Postcards in Isolation 12: Georgia O’ Keeffe, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie’s II, 1930

2nd July 20205th July 2020  Emily Garbutt

Looking at the New Mexico desert, Georgia O’Keeffe found a new home. In the thirteenth Postcard piece, Emily Garbutt considers O’Keeffe’s vivid, evocative painting, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie’s II, 1930, and asks when she will have the opportunity, post-lockdown, to survey a foreign landscape.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alfred Stieglitz, Andy Warhol, Covid-19, Emily Garbutt, landscape, Lockdown Living, nature, New Mexico, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts

‘Maiden’s Tears’ by Olivia Rosane

21st June 202022nd June 2020  Olivia Rosane

In Olivia Rosane’s enchanting and evocative rites-of-passage poem, ‘Maiden’s Tears’, a young woman realises her own inner power and strength when encountering a small wildflower in an open field.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, Maiden Tears, nature, Olivia Rosane, Poetry, Rite of Passage, Usha Akella

‘Elegy for a Sunflower’ and other poems by Sophia Naz

13th June 202014th June 2020  Sophia Naz

Sophia Naz’s lush and imagistic poems describe the fallen splendour of a wilting sunflower, the passing of a season and a desolate landscape of leafless redwood trees.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Flora & Fauna of Foreign Places, nature, Poetry, Sophia Naz, Sunflowers, Trees, turncoats, Usha Akella

Threads by William Henry Searle – a rich and brilliant tapestry of nature’s wilds

19th March 201928th August 2019  Gabriela Frost

William Henry Searle’s Threads is a call to order and serves to remind us of our material and spiritual reliance on the natural world. But is Searle’s encounter with nature relatable? asks our arts writer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, Books, EnvironmentTagged: Chris Packham, creative non-fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Fingers in the Sparkle Jar, memoir, nature, New Forest, Snowdonia, Threads, William Henry Searle
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