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Jennifer Pickup is a secondary school English teacher turned primary school teacher turned Nursery Manager and Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator with a love of telling stories and weaving rhymes. She lives in Wiltshire with her Chihuahua-cross rescue dog and when she isn't working she can be found dog-walking, horse-riding her beloved dressage horse, dressage judging, or glued to her laptop, writing. A lot of her work can be found on www.abctales.com - this writing community offered her valuable feedback and support over the years and was instrumental in getting her fist novel published through Unbound. Unbelievable is her first novel - http://unbound.co.uk/books/unbelievable - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbelievable-Jennifer-Pickup/dp/1908717068.
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Best Laid Plans
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Red Door
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House of Cards
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Absolution
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Mad Girl’s Heart Song
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This has echoes of...
Posted on Sat, 07 Dec 2024
...so many things. But I'm getting 'Wuthering Heights' vibes.
How wonderfully atmospheric.
'breath like intense tempest' - love this line, both the imagery and the sound of it when read aloud, the rise and fall of the words....
Read full commentPosted in Stormy Night Of Passion
It's always a dangerous thing...
Posted on Thu, 09 Jan 2025
....to ask what someone else is thinking.
You may not like the answer. Sometimes it's best not to know!
I love a sonnet, and this one is so atmospheric.
'taking his silence as separation' - Yes, this line! So well...
Read full commentPosted in Sonnet in Silence
So true!
Posted on Thu, 10 Oct 2024
I've written four villanelles now - this one most recently, one called 'Another Art' in July this year inspired by ‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop, 'Unsaid' in February this year (not sure of the inspiration, think I just based it loosely on the...
Read full commentPosted in Mad Girl’s Heart Song
So glad...
Posted on Sun, 11 Aug 2024
...I'm not the only one that does this.
Love the final stanza.
J x
Read full commentPosted in Leonard & Co-hen
Thank you!
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
The train metaphor comes from my dad being a steam train enthusiast - throughout my childhood, we spent countless hours as a family riding on steam trains, exploring steam musems, going to model railway exhibits, and train spotting! The family...
Read full commentPosted in Last Train
Wonderful!
Posted on Fri, 05 Apr 2024
The imagery is so evocative, how beautifully done!
Saw a pair the other day - spectacular!
J x
Read full commentPosted in The Red Kite (bird of prey)
True!
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
The poem does admit that at the end, though!
J x
Read full commentPosted in Superstition
First time...
Posted on Tue, 10 Oct 2023
...that I've written about this. Hardest poem I've ever written, it took me nearly two weeks on and off, and weirdly I finished it on World Mental Health Day, which I'll be honest I didn't even know existed until it popped up on an NHS campaign...
Read full commentPosted in Anxiety Rules
Wow!
Posted on Fri, 11 Aug 2023
Thank you - what an honour!
It was hugely enjoyable and challenging to write - not just understanding and then following the structure of the poetic form, but addressing the subject matter. Personal and yet also the experience of others,...
Read full commentPosted in Wolves
This line,'Counting out an
Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008
This line,
'Counting out an abacus
of small conceits'
is just perfect.
As ever, I am going to ask for punctuation all through - your use of it and capitals is rather sporadic, I feel!
Read full commentPosted in The Mulberry Bush
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