How She Does It: Liz Pike | Studio Mothers: Life & Art

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Putting Your Work Out There: There You Are, 34 poems about Motherhood

Who are these crazy dreamers who plug away at something, for hour after hour on their own, believing that one day it will come to something?  I am one of them, and although sometimes I feel deluded (!), I know that there is a quiet faith that my writing will see the light of dayContinueContinue reading “Putting Your Work Out There: There You Are, 34 poems about Motherhood”

Store it up..

A kernel is sometimes all it takes.  A feeling, a word, an image that sums up how we are feeling, a verse from a song.  Store them up, write them down.   In those years of relentless parenting with three under fives, I often had a feeling, a desire to say something which would be snatchedContinueContinue reading “Store it up..”

Shine Like Stars

So much of my life as a writer has been about waiting.  It’s frustrating as a creative outlet in that for a lot of the time, your work has to be validated by someone else for it to appear in print. Even now, there are a few pieces of my work that have been published,ContinueContinue reading “Shine Like Stars”

Love Poem: Poetry prints by Little Bird Editions

My children exhaust me and bring me to the end of myself but they make me who I am and they were the ones who taught me to love. I have recently launched a collection of prints which are my own hand-letterings of some of my poems about the early years, when everything is aContinueContinue reading “Love Poem: Poetry prints by Little Bird Editions”