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Catherine Johnson

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Children's, Poetry, Fiction

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Catherine Johnson grew up in Yorkshire, England and has since lived in New Zealand for four years before settling down in Canada.

She is a former black belt twice British Champion, business graduate, one time au pair and big F1 fan.

Catherine used to write poetry for kids on a daily blog but these days she volunteers at her local Art Society and helps to run the art gallery when she isn't knee deep in yarn crocheting something. ...more

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The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

by Richard Osman

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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

by Bill Bryson

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More Myself: A Journey

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 2: by Catherine

Sep 07, 2012 04:05PM

Hi Jane, That's terrible news, I hope your husband is doing better now. I will have more time to read novels next week when Hannah finally goes to school.
Take care!
Catherine

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message 1: by Jane

Sep 05, 2012 07:55PM

Catherine, do you know Laurie R King's novels. They are excelllent and are mysteries. YOu can join her group and ask a question now through goodreads.
I am so busy that I haven't written or contacted you.My husband broke his hip and I returned from UK in late June to find him in Hospital, He is just getting better now!
All the best Jane( Buttery)

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