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Alison Binney

English teacher, PGCE course tutor, poet

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Winner of the HappenStance ‘small poems’ competition, February 2018

Grace

That moment when the whole
knotty world curls
around a tired
bee fumbling
on the
ground,
then
curls
again
around
the dark
red proboscis
reaching out to
your teaspoon of honey
and staying while you watch

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Latest News and Events

  • Autumn events
  • Fathers, witches and things that fall out of books: The Verb, with Ian McMillan
  • Launch events for ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’
  • ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ – cyanotype cover art
  • The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning
  • Hearth at Gladstone’s Library – A Kitchen of one’s own
  • Assembling and submitting a poetry pamphlet – Mslexia Salon
  • Out and wild
  • Wave of Nostalgia, Haworth
  • Magma 85: Poems for Schools – Selected Poet
  • On perseverance and publication
  • The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2022: Straight-line mission
  • Heeling in at Lower Wood
  • Reviews of ‘Other Women’s Kitchens’
  • ‘Other Women’s Kitchens’ – Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition Winner
  • FenSpeak
  • Butcher’s Dog Issue 15
  • Tea & coffee at 8.25
  • Desire lines*
  • ‘Popshot’ Issue 30: The Protest Issue

Latest Creative Writing and Reading Courses

  • Ghost-whispering: A poetry masterclass with Alison Binney at Gladstone’s Library – Saturday 23rd May 2026, 10.30am to 3.00pm

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