Author: Jean Atkin

I'm a poet and educator, work on community projects and collaborations.
Jean Atkin's poetry

They lie, crowned, with their hands crossed/ The Kings and Queens of Aragon

I’ve been making a book from a poem.  The poem is about the royal tombs of the Kings and Queens of Aragon, from the 12th to the 15th century.  Their huge stone tombs are in the nave of the Abbey church in the Monastery of Poblet, in Catalonia.  I saw them twenty years ago while travelling through Spain by bicycle.  It was a bitter winter day and we … Continue reading They lie, crowned, with their hands crossed/ The Kings and Queens of Aragon

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Writing for The Museum of Lost Objects

A short and high-spirited workshop today with home-educated kids Isaac, Loreta and Mollie. First we choose from The Museum of Lost Objects. We described them to each other, then did 5 minutes focussed free-writing (spelling-and-punctuation-free-as-long-as-you-can-read-it-back).  We shared that, chose the best bits.  Then we looked at some poems written as cinquains, so there are 5 lines, and each line has a set number of syllables in it: … Continue reading Writing for The Museum of Lost Objects

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