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Last Wednesday I attended the launch of the Centenary of The Society of Women Writers NSW. We launched this wonderful film commissioned by the Centenary Committee and devised by writer, Libby Hathorn and Hamish Gilbert from Mental…

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I am so thrilled to announce that I am the winner of the 2025, Di Yerbury Residency through the Society of Women Writers NSW. I have three months in Barnstable, Devon, UK to write and research my novel, The Ingenious Professor, the imagined life of Joseph Lycett convict, forger and artist. Its an exceptional prize and I feel humbled and so excited to be given this wonderful opportunity. Follow the link…

In May 2024 I was published as part of an official event in Mauritius for the International Dylan Thomas Day with my poem, At Last, my Love, my Foxy Darling. Thankyou to Vatsala Radhakeesoon for this opportunity

Nell Jones

Australia

At Last, my Love, My Foxy Darling.

(After Gossamer Beynon)

In the morning light,

The daybreak rush is over,

And Llarregubb…

https://lighthousearts.org.au/what-how-why/

In June 2024 I was involved with the Who/What/Why project mounted by the artist, Chris Brown at Lighthouse Arts in Newcastle. This…

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This year I was lucky enough to be included in Vatsala Radhakeesoon's official literary event in Mauritius for the International Dylan Thomas Day celebrations, with the publication of my poem, At 86. The Love the Words Poetry Competition, which is the official event for International Dylan Thomas Day for poets, longlisted my poem, Elegy 22-Is it a Dream? This was judged…

Late last year, the Australian writer Libby Hathorn and I, worked on an article about the Evening of Keats Art and Poetry. It reflected on the event created in the Woollahra Galleries to celebrate Keats work and the 200 years since his death. Artists were asked to reflect on his poetry and create artworks from a chosen poem. The review is below published today on Australian Children's Poetry website. Enjoy.

Nell…

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This year I was selected again to submit a poem based on the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas for International Dylan Thomas Day 2022.  My poem, In Ceremony of a Fire Raid Past, was published as part of an official and yearly event published on, Vatsala Radhakeesoon's,( poet and Artist) blog page, as part of the celebrations of Dylan Day on May…

I wrote this poem for the 200 Year Commemoration of John Keats Death last year in 2021. Hope you enjoy it.

http://https://ksh.roma.it/content/keats-shelley200

A World without Light

Upon the yearning of your quietus, when

Everything passes into one moment,

And Death’s veil, absorbs the eternal space,

The poet’s soul, drifts from a long…