Blog | Maxine Linnell

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Why be quiet? An understory conversation

Charlotte Gann and I have been talking/writing about this writing and project, and the result is published here. Thanks to Charlotte for...

What if? (Part one)

Imagine this. There’s something wrong, but it’s not clear what that is. You miss things, lose things, forget. You used to be organised,...

New day

A new year - a new day is enough to be going on with. Another stepping stone in this change-river, another noticing in another moment....

Half way

This is the picture of the Balfron Tower in London, by Simon Terrill, which is mentioned in the poem. My son Benn was Project Manager on...

Kate

Kate was such a joy. We went to the Hay Festival, to Bruges, to Paris, to Cornwall, to poetry festivals and exhibitions, Akram Khan and...

Losts

Mind full of past. Dust collections in corners. Last year’s spider webs. Last century’s bus tickets. Trip over fabric piles that might...

Pink

The second image is from a quilt I admired, and the first is something that came from it.

The jacket

This is a section of a Japanese-style jacket I'm making. Yesterday I completed this one. Most of the sections will be worked on in some...

The day I drowned the remote

In the kitchen, in the sink, in the bowl, in the water, the tv remote was drowning. There was nobody to blame, nothing to say how it got...