Category: Jean Atkin’s poetry

Jean Atkin's poetry

Her wings of glass

Her wings of glass is a marvellous new anthology published by Second Light Network,  containing ‘ambitious poems by contemporary women poets’. It features  237 ‘highly individual, complex, allusive poems by 134 women poets’.  Reviewer John Killick describes it as ‘an absolutely outstanding collection making a powerful impact … I think it is the most important anthology for decades’. I am so proud to have a poem included in … Continue reading Her wings of glass

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Events and Ideas, Jean Atkin's poetry, Poet in Residence

‘Luck’s Weight’ exhibition opens January 2015

LUCK’S WEIGHT, an exhibition of my poetry and the beautiful photographs of Andrew Fusek Peters, will open in January 2015.  Its very first outing will be at the beautiful Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms. The poems are from from my residency earlier this year at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm.  I wrote about the working horses, the ancient breed of Silver Dorking hens, the … Continue reading ‘Luck’s Weight’ exhibition opens January 2015

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