Christopher Jelley
Artist in Residence - busy month ahead!
It's a great title Artist in residence to 'lord about' when you can, so I am shouting it out as often as I can, knowing that June will...
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Christopher Jelley
Apr 22, 20172 min read
Taunton-ness Teasers
What ingredients would you put in Taunton pie? As a ghost which part of Taunton would you haunt first? If you designed a flag for Taunton...
Christopher Jelley
Apr 4, 20172 min read
The Lost Words
The Lost Words, due out this autumn is a response from nature writer Robert Macfarlane and author illustrator Jackie Morris to 'spell...
Christopher Jelley
Mar 10, 20171 min read
Bidden
This is my poem inspired by the Strange Worlds of Angela Carter Exhibition in Bristol which finished on March 19th. It was shortlisted...
Christopher Jelley
Jan 11, 20172 min read
Exeter Poetry Pin
The first virtual poetry city. It was just after the Exmoor Poetry Boxes book launch when the fire at the Royal Clarence Hotel shook the...
Christopher Jelley
Nov 23, 20162 min read
Word harvest time
Three summers in the making, six tins in the brewing, thousands of walkers and passerby, to create this new book of Exmoor Poetry.
Christopher Jelley
Nov 8, 20161 min read
Exmoor Poetry Boxes - Book launch
A Harvest of Wild Words Over three summers the Poetry Boxes have been out harvesting words across the moors. The first year, 2014 was at...
Christopher Jelley
Oct 8, 20161 min read
The Canvas Lords
A poem about camping, composed this summer 'observing and being observed' whilst camping! Enjoy Here is the transcription. The Canvas...
Christopher Jelley
Jul 22, 20163 min read
The Way We See It - Exhibition @Contains Art
The title set for this exhibition at Contains Art in Watchet is called 'The Way We See It' which for me has felt a little slippery or...
Christopher Jelley
Jun 27, 20162 min read
The Hokey Cokey
So many changes have just happened in the UK it seems only natural to write a poem to try and capture a response. The current title is...
Christopher Jelley
May 23, 20162 min read
Very Cleever Kids
Recently I was invited to Storywalk with Old Cleeve school in Somerset which was really rewarding. The school is part of the first school...
Christopher Jelley
Apr 15, 20161 min read
Phase II for Poetry Pin - The Mineral Line
Well this is one of those 'stop the presses' moments as the funding has just been approved for the second Poetry Pin trail, this time...
Christopher Jelley
Apr 4, 20165 min read
Landscaping Change – Wild Words
Easter 2016, and I have just presented to delegates at the Landscaping Change conference at Bath Spa University. The talk was entitled...
Christopher Jelley
Feb 25, 20162 min read
To the land of the left hand sun
(Photograph - Reuben Jelley) A couple of weeks ago I was in Christchurch, New Zealand which has been slowly reconstructing itself after a...
Christopher Jelley
Feb 22, 20161 min read
The Inventors Fair - Audio
Here is a little audio blog which I made whilst walking in the Deer Park in Dunster, and I talk a little about deploying the new...
Christopher Jelley
Feb 1, 20163 min read
Inventions Inventions Inventions
What a fabulous day with Dulverton school which kicked off with ‘The Inventors Fair’ out on the school fields. ‘Roll up, Roll up, the...
Christopher Jelley
Jan 15, 20161 min read
SEN Magazine
Now this is something you don't get everyday, a cover story about . .well Storywalks! Special Children magazine has been following Claire...
Christopher Jelley
Jan 4, 20161 min read
Poetry Boxes and the Ted Hughes Award
So firstly Happy New Year and welcome to a rejuvenated focus which has started (as usual) with a flood of emails, but for me it feels...
Christopher Jelley
Nov 23, 20151 min read
The less travelled path
A short poem read inside a hollow tree just as the rain was passing through, November 2015.
Christopher Jelley
Nov 9, 20155 min read
Ground Speaking with Gordon Field
Some days begin with an open heart and an open mind. . . And some days push these limits past understanding and comprehension, I believe...
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