Ann Perrin
@annperrinwrites
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#Poet, #writer, #puppeteer - blog 'finding my feet in #Brighton' - performance poetry, make films, writing memoir.
Brighton, England
Joined October 2012
Here we go Christmas again and a bit lost for words …
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But sometimes if I start writing something happens so here I go. This week I disiscovered from my stats over 5,000 people read something on this blog this year so seems like a good reason to press …
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My poem ‘Seeing’ is about gradually losing my sight and of course a little general chit chat.
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Seeing – poem about macular degeneration on the pond orange and white waterlilies balance like ballerinas on green leaves – …
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The puppets that went to the Palace and moving to Eastbourne!
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Buckingham Palace In the early 50s my parents were invited to entertain the Queen, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and their friends. We had clowns, a puppet circus, a white rabbit from Alice …
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On World Puppetry Day, thinking about the part of my spent treading the boards.
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Despite the doom and gloom, the dreadful war and its consequences, I managed to put a few things on The British Puppet and Model Theatre facebook page and on my own. There was poignancy in being re…
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Strange times – celebrations – love – loss and poetry
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Thank goodness that the sparkle of light on leaves can still lift my mood. A walk on the beach and sunlight on the sea has the same effect. &nb…
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More life and times of ageing puppeteer, writer and poet.
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Frankly the reality of realising that I am still alive came as a bit of a shock. Only recently have we ventured out after nearly two years of remaining pretty close to home. We were treated to a lo…
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My poem translated into Italian – Bluebells – Garden – Memoir.
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An unexpected email arrived from journalist and poet Lavinia Collodel, an art historian living in Rome. She was writing about green spaces for an Italian mag…
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Emerging from the chaos of 2020 inevitably older but wiser?
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During lockdown I think my life has taken even more of an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ quality, with a few chunks of ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ for good measure. The Mad Hat…
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Telegoons – based on The Goon show – their role in my downfall!
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Invited to give a talk about the Telegoons for The Goon Show Preservation Society many moons ago, naturally it developed into a performance! Here is the transcript of the talk I have also transfe…
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Creativity – lockdown – but everything is the garden is lovely!
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We created a courtyard at the front of the house, with chairs, a table, a trough full of flowers and a bird feeder. It was partly in an attempt to ensure we could have two or three friends round a…
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Early summer in the garden. Pictures -puppet – poems
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– – The frog pond – translucent wings hover newts wiggle under waterlilies nearby bees fills socks with pollen midges dance in fading light. – – …
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Memories – VE day in Balmore Street London N.19 and poetry.
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I guess we must have been a patriotic lot in London in 1945. I was only 4 and a half but I think I had picked up on my mother’s terror, the bombs, the constant need of escape and the lack of …
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