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Sarah James
I am an Oxford modern languages graduate and former journalist, now a full-time mother, poet and short story writer. I love reading, writing, swimming, squash, walking, mulled wine, watching television dramas or films and belly dancing.

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Sarah's extensive poetry and short story publications and competition successes.

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1368 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 16/10/07 . 07:59:59 am . Permalink . Email . 411 views  17 feedbacks

Why read Sarah's blog?

This short piece should help people find their way round the various categories of my blog so they can get the most of the many posts on offer.

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254 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 15/10/07 . 08:44:47 pm . Permalink . Email . 176 views  3 feedbacks

Why subscribe to my blog?

Why subscribe to my blog? Because it's the best, most brilliant, most interesting...this goes without saying. But exactly what benefits does subscribing to my blog (or anyone else's) bring?

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233 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 15/10/07 . 06:52:33 pm . Permalink . Email . 192 views  2 feedbacks

Slivers

Slivers was selected for Matthew Francis's Guardian online poetry workshop and published on Guardian online in April 2008.

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126 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 16/07/08 . 06:32:24 pm . Permalink . Email . 11 views  2 feedbacks

Housework

This poem was chosen for publication as writelink resources (paid for) monthly poem (on the theme of friends) in May 2008.

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104 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 14/07/08 . 12:29:32 pm . Permalink . Email . 17 views  Send feedback

Grindstone

It's been such a busy and productive day that I've had to escape to blogland in the hope the break will revive my brain-dead mind.

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218 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 09/07/08 . 03:41:49 pm . Permalink . Email . 20 views  2 feedbacks

Another One Bites the Dust

Regular readers may remember me blogging about the fact that West Midlands creative writing Raw Edge Magazine was under threat of losing its Art Council funding.

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163 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 06/07/08 . 08:12:51 pm . Permalink . Email . 19 views  4 feedbacks

Picture This!

Some fellow bloggers may remember me mentioning a local photography contest to capture the essence of the town where I live. Well, I've had some good news and some bad news...

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291 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 05/07/08 . 08:25:36 pm . Permalink . Email . 38 views  11 feedbacks

In Focus

Question: What do snails, press releases, decorating fairy wings and taking website photos have in common?

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233 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 02/07/08 . 02:50:51 pm . Permalink . Email . 25 views  6 feedbacks

Jack of All Trades

It's been a busy couple of weeks and I feel a bit like I'm Jack of All Trades, mastering them one by one (hopefully!)!

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399 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 24/06/08 . 06:46:50 pm . Permalink . Email . 29 views  6 feedbacks

Angles

It's been a week of new angles on life for me and I'm hoping they'll all turn out to be right angles.

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277 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 13/06/08 . 11:14:44 am . Permalink . Email . 36 views  2 feedbacks

Food for thought

If poetry were a food, what would it be and why? I've just posted this question as a new thread over in the writelink poetry forum. So if anyone feels like something light-hearted for this time of night, please pop over, have a look and share your culinary inspiration.

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49 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 12/06/08 . 08:41:25 pm . Permalink . Email . 15 views  Send feedback

Leapfrog

This poem to mark my nephew Jack's first birthday on Sunday was partly inspired by the writelink write angles competition.

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82 Words . sarah_james , add to friends . 11/06/08 . 10:32:25 am . Permalink . Email . 49 views  8 feedbacks
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