This was a project teaching children to write haiku. Children eventually put their poems on leaves.
Here a poem is written on a cut-out leaf:
Hard work getting the words right:
A haiku on bay leaves:
And another:
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I'm a writer, of poetry and prose, as well as reviewer, editor (and occasionally, academic). In this blog I log how things go with my ambitions and projects. If anything connects with what interests you, I'd be pleased to hear.Pages
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- A child, wandering
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Awards
2017: Winner, Sentinel Literary Quarterly Prize
2016: Sentinel Annual Poetry Prize (Second and Highly Commended)
2014: Winner, Orbis Readers’ Award
2014: Nominated for Forward and Pushcart prizes
2013: Southport Writers’ (Winner and Highly Commended)
2012: Ted Hughes Yorkshire Prize (Winner)
Cinnamon Poetry Collection Award (Winner)
Sentinel Literary Quarterly (2nd)
2011: John Clare Poetry Prize (2nd)
Two poems nominated for the Forward Prize
Newark Poetry Prize (2nd)
Awel Aman Tawe: (3rd)
Moorland Plant Poetry Competition (2 runners-up)
2010 : Wasafiri Poetry Prize (Winner)
Yorkshire Poet Prize (Yorkshire Open)
Welsh Poetry (4th)
Northampton Poetry (2nd)
Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry: (1st)
2009 : Speakeasy Poetry (1st)
Coffee House Troubadour (commended)
Aesthetica Creative Works (finalist, Highly Commended)
Red Shed Open Poetry (3rd)
Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau Poetry (3rd)
Envoi Poetry (runner up)
2008: New Writer Poetry Prize (1st)
2007: City of Derby Poetry Prize (3rd)Archives
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Kaffeeklatsch
[a journal of new poetry and critcism]
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Write a poem a week. Start now. Keep going.
Jayne Stanton POETRY
Poetry and comment
Oversteps Books
Publishing fine poetry
Angelina Ayers
Experiments in Ekphrasis
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