poetry – KDD & Co

Pareidolia

By: Kate Davies Designs April 8, 2025April 8, 2025

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pebbly faces

Sprung Rhythm

all things counter, original, spare, strange . . .

Southport

By: Kate Davies Designs July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

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a poem

Sock of the week no. 8

By: Kate Davies Designs July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

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Woollen socks! Woollen socks!
Full of colour, full of clocks!

Norwegian Forest

Christina Campbell introduces a beautiful shawl, inspired by where she is, and where she is not.

Na Séasúir

Mary O’Shea introduces a glorious circular scarf whose colours turn with her, through the seasons

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been really struck by how colourful the oak trees I see on my morning walks are at this time of year, with their wild orangey-red foliage so different to the surrounding trees heavy green. So here’s a poem I wrote in my head about those oaks this morning. The…

At Carry Farm

By: Kate Davies Designs April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

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Yesterday I showed you some photographs that Tom had taken of an object I’d found on the beach at Carry Farm, and about which I’d subsequently written a poem. Here’s that poem. At Carry Farm Here, at the brink of land and water a pale ghost grounded. Supple, limpid, damp in the palm, in two…

object lesson

By: Kate Davies Designs April 15, 2020April 15, 2020

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Last October, I went to stay for a week at Carry Farm, in Argyll, to think about my writing. I took BOB the dog with me, but was otherwise alone. I walked by the sea every day, I did a little knitting, a little embroidery, and a lot of thinking. Some of the poems I’ve…

Fabrication

By: Kate Davies Designs April 9, 2020April 9, 2020

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Good morning! A poem today. Earlier this week saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth – a poet who has, for the past couple of centuries, often set the ideological terms of the writing of landscape and nature. I’ve been thinking about Wordsworth’s particular “Romantic” landscapes quite a lot in recent months,…

a coat for falling

By: Kate Davies Designs April 4, 2020April 4, 2020

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Good morning! Are there garments in your wardrobes from which a particular event or association is difficult to shake? I have friends, for example, who after wearing a certain dress at a funeral, have found that putting it on again becomes difficult. I’m a particularly garment-attached person, and there’s perhaps no garment to which I’m…

snipe

By: Kate Davies Designs March 30, 2020March 29, 2021

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Good morning, all! How is the weather in your part of the world? It’s a lovely, crisp morning here, with all the birds in full voice. As an early riser, at this time of the year it’s one of my greatest pleasures to go for a walk at first light, when the world’s awash with…

walking words

By: Kate Davies Designs March 25, 2020

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Good morning, everyone. Today I thought I’d share with you one of the poems I recently read at Write by the Sea. I’m someone who loves walking, and since my stroke in 2010, I’m also someone who has a disabled body. If you’ve read Handywoman, you might remember that a really formative moment in my…

Thursday I got nothing

By: Kate Davies Designs April 7, 2019April 7, 2019

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Hello everyone, it’s Tom here. I’m dropping by to tell you all about my latest photographic project – Thursday I got nothing: a collection of images inspired by George Mackay Brown’s poem, Beachcomber. Together, these images ask the question, as photographers, if we look closely, do we ever get nothing? George Mackay Brown was one…