Magnificent 800-year-old Ginkgo tree🌳

📍Village of Bangye-ri , South Korea 🇰🇷

Lovely to speak to Ian Eagleton about Be my Sunflower and thank you to Walker Picture Books for offering a giveaway. (@CatCawthorne The Catchpole Agency - you might recognise a certain wolf in this blog too!)

Well...you can't write poems all day long. Lots of fun to be had in this anthology of daftness thanks to
Comedy Women In Print and the indomitable Helen Lederer and all my fellow scribblers...

Friday Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 w/a brand new recording of Víkingur Ólafsson playing Bach, Ugandan composer Justinian Tamusuza leads us on the way of the cross, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita listen to the Grass Grow and Kathryn Simmonds recycles April in our Friday poem. Join us

Happy Easter from the Blake Society

Seems insane that Anton Chekhov looked like this.

Ah, it's lovely to see our book being enjoyed. Thanks Jill Bennett ! 🌻

Georgie Birkett Walker Books 5. Told from the point of view of a sunflower seed, Be My Sunflower by Kathryn Simmonds & Rosalind Beardshaw is a charming story about doing things in your own time and having courage. It’s perfect for spring to read alongside lessons on plants in EYFS & KS1.
Walker Books
🧵 #WBD

Amit Shah (Parody) Orangutan asks to see the baby❣️

Permission to play, oh I love this!

Our Summer Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…🍓🍒

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When my daughter was 5, we planted sunflower seeds for a school activity...but one didn't want to grow...why not? Now, thanks to Rosalind Beardshaw and the TLC of The Catchpole Agency and Walker Picture Books (esp editor Pauliina Malinen 🌻) we can tell the story. Vernon is about to bloom!

💥 We're sharing poems from all of our Spring Programme tutors. ⁠
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& here's a poem from Kathryn Simmonds, 'Unequal Love.'
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Kathryn is teaching 'The Circle Game Studio+'

See here: poetryschool.com/courses/the-ci…

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This course is now fully booked. Looking forward to reading and discussing lots of poems in circular forms.

joyous news!

Baby Elephant taking a bath in a little bath tub will make your day

It strikes me that 'be yourself' can in one sense be an absolutely desolate and stultifying platitude, and in another be one of the most mighty, holy, and liberating invitations possible for a soul to hear.

There is a group of folk going around filling pavements and cracks with mosaics.
I’m having problems getting tweets out…Sorry.
The brainchild of this operation on the streets is from Lyon ‘Ememem
‘Pavement Surgeon

Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Below is our handy Quick Course Guide, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…🌸🪱

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One of the comforts of January is the Xmas book haul...this beauty is by Kathryn Gray 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿