Category: Jean Atkin’s poetry

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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Jean Atkin's poetry, Poet in Residence

‘Luck’s Weight’ launched

‘Luck’s Weight’ the exhibition was launched on Saturday at beautiful Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms.  It’ll be there until 10th February.  We’re so grateful to the lovely audience (we think we counted 37) who listened and talked in all the right places.  Andrew Fusek Peters and I talked about Acton Scott Farm, and how we came to be collaborating on the project, and I … Continue reading ‘Luck’s Weight’ launched

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