Today I was The Spellwright for the Hay Meadow Festival in a cool and beautiful field below The Stiperstones in Shropshire. Whenever I looked up I saw people scything meadow grasses, tossing haybales over a high bar with a pitchfork, making flowers, drinking beer, listening to a spot of jazz and swing. All very lovely. Meantime, I wrote spell after spell, for people of all … Continue reading A Spell for Haymaking
I’m just starting work on a fascinating project focused on Earl’s Hill above Pontesford, just south of Shrewsbury. It’s called Impressions of the Past – a community arts project celebrating the Iron Age landscape. A week ago I joined Joe Penfold from Stiperstones & Corndon Hill Country Landscape Partnership Scheme, Hugh Hannaford, Senior Archaeological Advisor at Shropshire Council, and a big group of interested … Continue reading Making Poetry on a Hillfort
JEAN ATKIN 