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Katherine Mansfield Fellowship 2023

KM: A Celebration
KM Menton Fellowship
A Day Trip to the Peninsula

KM: A Celebration
KM Menton Fellowship
A Day Trip to the Peninsula

York

Church Going

25 August 2023
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York

Happy National Poetry Day from the East Riding of Yorkshire. This is St Mary’s Church in Kirkburn. Its nave and chancel were built about 1130. Inside there’s a twelfth century cylindrical Norman font made of limestone and carved with decorative patterns and a tableau of animal and human figures. It’s impossible to imagine how many babies have been carried gently to this spot over the centuries. All I know is that my mother and my uncles were cradled here and...

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By Sue Wootton
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About Sue

Sue Wootton

Sue Wootton is a poet, novelist, short story writer and essayist. She lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the 2020 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow, but was only able to travel to Menton in September 2023 to take up the Fellowship. She returned to New Zealand in January 2024. Subscribe to this Blog by adding your email below

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