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Covid-19 CREATIVE BELPER 

A Viral Rhyme by Carol Brewer

20th March 202020th March 2020 Admin 1 Comment Coronavirus, Covid-19, poetry

A VIRAL RHYME If like me, you’re fed up of total gloomy reaction Here’s a few words that might prove

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WHAT'S ON 

Folk Icon to Play Wirksworth Book Festival

21st March 2019 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments Ashley Hutchings, Folk, poetry, Wirksworth Book Festival

Ashley Hutchings, once described by Bob Dylan as “the single most important person in English Folk Rock”, is playing a

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CULTURE 

Poetry: Kingfisher

26th February 201928th February 2019 Jo Kirk 1 Comment kingfisher, Nature, poetry

“My observations from a bridge overlooking the river Derwent on 18th February 2019.” Kingfisher by Jo Kirk   I am

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CREATIVE BELPER ENVIRONMENT 

Poem: Birdwatch Hour

29th January 2019 Jo Kirk 0 Comments Jo Kirk, poetry, RSPB

Marking the end of the Big Garden Birdwatch run by the RSPB from 26th-28th January 2019, which asked members of

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CULTURE 

Belper Acts Join Derby Folk Fringe Festival In City Centre

5th October 2018 Edward Sills 0 Comments Belper, Derby Folk Festival, Festival, Folk, fringe, Kai Swarvett, Music, poetry, Sue MacFarlane, Sunflower Thieves, Tony Stark

The 12th Derby Folk Festival takes place this weekend featuring several prominent Belper acts as part of the free fringe

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CREATIVE BELPER 

Celebrate Dylan Thomas Day With Nailed

11th May 201812th May 2018 Jo Kirk 3 Comments Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas Day, National Poetry Day, poetry, Submissions, Writing

May 14th is officially Dylan Thomas Day. It commemorates his life and work and is the 65th anniversary of Dylan

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CREATIVE BELPER 

Jo Kirk: Narcissi

1st April 2018 Jo Kirk 0 Comments 2018, Easter, Jo Kirk, Narcissi, poetry, Spring

Narcissi   Trumpets unpleated from a bud, held tight their heads an elegant stretch their stems slender necks, drifting birds

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Nailed Celebrates National Poetry Day

27th September 201727th September 2017 Claire Meese 0 Comments #nationalpoetryday, Creative, Creative Belper, Freedom, National Poetry Day, poetry

National Poetry Day will take place on Thursday 28 September 2017 with the theme this year being “Freedom”. National Poetry

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CREATIVE BELPER 

Jenny Cooper: MINE

27th September 201727th September 2017 Claire Meese 0 Comments #nationalpoetryday, Freedom, Jenny Cooper, MINE, National Poetry Day, poetry

MINE   Today is mine. This time is mine. The sun that shines on earth and sea also warms me.

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CREATIVE BELPER 

Jo Kirk: On Freedom

27th September 2017 Jo Kirk 0 Comments #nationalpoetryday, 2017, Jo Kirk, National Poetry Day, poetry

On Freedom   When I think of freedom I think of birds and words for we live in language and

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CREATIVE BELPER FEATURED NEWS 

New Addition To Beth’s Poetry Trail

3rd September 2017 Edward Sills 0 Comments Art, Belper Railway station, Beth’s Poetry Trail, culture, poetry, The Beth Fender Memorial Fund

Beth’s Poetry Trail have installed a new poster poem at Belper Railway station on Platform 1. The Belper Railway station

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BELPER GOES GREEN CREATIVE BELPER 

Belper Goes Green Poem: Festival

15th June 2017 Jo Kirk 1 Comment Belper Goes Green Poem. Festival, Creative, Creative Writing, Poem, poetry

  Butterfly mandalas and colours and lights and pancakes and oatcakes and tee-shirts and bikes and badges and raffles and

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BELPER GOES GREEN FEATURED NEWS 

Astonishing Line-up for 5th Belper Goes Green

3rd May 20176th May 2017 Claire Meese 1 Comment 2017, Belper Goes Green, Line-Up, Music, poetry, Rugby Club

The organisers of the fifth Belper Goes Green ECO Festival to be held at Belper Rugby Club from 2nd to

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CREATIVE BELPER ENVIRONMENT 

Fracking Month: Spell

7th April 2017 Jo Kirk 0 Comments Envrionment, fracking, poetry

N is for nature, wondrous and wild, O for the ozone that nearly retired, F for forget-me-not, fennel and furze,

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WHAT'S ON 

Andy T & Support At The Queens Head, Belper. April 22nd

31st March 2017 Mike Jones 0 Comments Adie Sanders, Andy T, IBC, Live Music, poetry, Sophie Sparham

On Saturday April 22nd  a night of contemporary poetry with Andy T, IBC, Sophie Sparham and Adie Sanders will take

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CREATIVE BELPER ENVIRONMENT 

A Poem For National Poetry Day

6th October 201610th October 2016 Claire Meese 0 Comments Jo Kirk, National Poetry Day, poetry

Errand What message is sent with drills not of seed corn but of nature bent to an unholy toil with

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REVIEWS 

Review: “No Map Could Show Them” by Helen Mort

21st July 20163rd June 2019 Admin 1 Comment Helen Mort, Jo Kirk, No Map Could Show Them, Penguin, poetry

There is something quite extraordinary about this collection of poems. Helen Mort’s poems are of landscape and language, the human

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CREATIVE BELPER 

Poem: Marsh Pastoral

19th May 20163rd June 2019 Admin 1 Comment Jo Marsh, Nature, poetry

Marsh Pastoral Geese wing-flap their young along, mosquitos cloud busy over puddles on the rutted track, an incidental composition, the

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CREATIVE BELPER ENVIRONMENT 

Poem: Snowdrops Mirror by Jo Kirk

15th February 20163rd June 2019 Admin 0 Comments Jo Kirk, Nature, Poem, poetry

Snowdrops mirror a distant blizzard and flurries remind the early spring that winter’s realm has stretched its wings, the slender

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WHAT'S ON 

Journey of the Magi

1st December 2015 Clare Washbrook 0 Comments dance, poetry, Theatre

Journey of the Magi Friday 4th December 7.30pm St Peter’s Church, Belper Tickets: available at the door £8 adult, £5

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Derbyshire charity to screen award-nominated short film in Belper

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An award-winning short film highlighting the impact of rural domestic abuse is set for a special screening in Belper on

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