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Jennifer Pickup is a secondary school English teacher turned primary school teacher with a love of telling stories. She lives in Wiltshire with her Jack Russell Terror and when she isn't teaching she can be found dog-walking, horse-riding or glued to her Macbook, writing. A lot of her work can be found on www.abctales.com - this writing community offered her valuable feedback and support over the years and was instrumental in getting her fist novel published through Unbound. Unbelievable is her first novel - http://unbound.co.uk/books/unbelievable - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unbelievable-Jennifer-Pickup/dp/1908717068 - and Unforgivable is the sequel - http://unbound.co.uk/books/unforgivable - for which she is currently seeking crowd-funding. Her muse has been devastatingly missing in action of late, but has returned...
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Stars on Fire
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- 381 reads
The Colours
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White Feather
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Walk With You
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The Gift
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This line,'Counting out an
Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008
This line,
'Counting out an abacus
of small conceits'
is just perfect.
As ever, I am going to ask for punctuation all through - your use of it and capitals is rather sporadic, I feel!
Read full commentPosted in The Mulberry Bush
Great poem, but I feel the
Posted on Wed, 16 Jun 2010
Great poem, but I feel the word 'invigorates' doesn't fit - it makes the line have too many syllables and throws the rhythm, which is otherwise pretty uniform, off. How about finding another word that means the same thing but has fewer syllables? J...Read full commentPosted in Sun's role
Mad, exhausting,
Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2009
Mad, exhausting, intense! You captured such a crazy feeling! Once again, just the 'it's' to point out, Yes, keep writing! J xRead full commentPosted in Lost in New York - Pt II
'the rain battered box gift
Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008
'the rain battered box gift wrapped' such a vivid image of the coffin. This is minimalistic, and yet says it all. And for once, I think the lack of puncatuation adds to that.Read full commentPosted in One Driver Escaped Uninjured