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Josephine Corcoran
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Writer - mostly poetry but also plays and short stories. she/her josephinecorcoran.org/
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Angels & Insects was my first A S Byatt (charity shop find) & the second novella (the book is two separate novellas) was a challenging read for me. I often felt I wasn’t brainy enough. But I stuck with it & the final two paras of Angels (pasted into my notebook in admiration) just perfection #books

The final two paragraphs of the final two chapters of Angels & Insects by A S Byatt which I’ve photocopied into small font and pasted into my notebook
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The day after the Kent State shootings in 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58 percent of respondents placed blame for the students' deaths on the protesters, while just 11 percent blamed the National Guardsmen who shot them.

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I’ve blogged about my contribution to The Centre for Print Research’s project for World Book Night ‘In Praise of Birds’. There’s a really beautiful 3-minute film in my post with glimpses of some of the 250 postcards in the exhibition. josephinecorcoran.org/2024/04/23/w...

World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds
World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds

My thanks to artist, writer and publisher Jeremy Dixon for sharing the open callout from WBN2024 and WBN United Artists for a postcard exhibition organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr at The Centre...

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They are beautiful aren’t they? Celandines, daisies, dandelions and forget me nots all doing well in my garden just now.

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Excuse the typos. It was my excitement at nature’s genius #wildflowers

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A day to go travelling. I knew dandelions were useful to wildlife but have recently learned they support 50 (!) different species of insect and the seeds are food for birds including sparrows and goldand goldfinches 💛🤍

Dandelion seeds in a round head or ‘clock’ about to be dispersed by the wind
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This is what I’m thinking about as I stand in our peaceful garden looking at the returning spring flowers. Please write to your MP or rep.

White card painted with the words ‘stop arming Israel’ photographed in the middle of a purple flowering honesty plant.
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For World Poetry Day, ‘The Sweet Arab, the Generous Arab’ by Naomi Shihab Nye

The Sweet Arab, the Generous Arab
Since no one else is mentioning you enough
The Arab who extends his hand.
The Arab who will not let you pass
his tiny shop without a welcoming word.
The refuge inviting us in for a Coke.
Clean glasses on a table in a ramshackle hut.
Thase who don't drink Coke would drink it now.
We drink from the silver flask of hospitality. We drink and you bow your head.
Please forgave everyone who has no honored your name
You who would not kill a mouse, a bird.
Who feels sad sometimes even cracking an egg.
Who places two stones on top of one another for a monument. Who packed the pieces, carried them to a new corner. For whom the words rubble and blast are constants. Who never wanted those words. To be able to say. this is a day and I live in it safely, with those I love, was all. Who has been hurt but never hurt in return. Fathers and grandmothers, uncles, the little lost cousin who wanted only to see a ferris wheel in his lifetime. ride it
high into the air. /
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Josephine Corcoran
@andotheritems.bsky.social
Writer - mostly poetry but also plays and short stories. she/her josephinecorcoran.org/
179 followers111 following80 posts