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Kelmscott Willows

06 Wednesday Feb 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Environment, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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acrylics, Cotswolds, gold leaf, Kelmscott, William Morris, willows

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Acrylics and gold leaf by Candia

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Burford Today

17 Saturday Nov 2018

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Environment, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography

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Autumn, Burford, Cotswolds, dry stone wall, willows

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Radcot Cut, Kelmscott

13 Saturday Oct 2018

Posted by Candia in Environment, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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Kelmscott, Pre-Raphaelites, Radcot Cut, reeds, willows

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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