Meeting John Clare at High Beach
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a book of poems from Epping Forest by Michael Shann
Backers: 26
Average Pledge Per Backer: £20
Funded: £512 of £2,500
Dates: Sep 22nd -> Oct 22nd (30 days)
Project By: Cherry Jane Potts
Backers: 26
Average Pledge Per Backer: £20
Funded: £512 of £2,500
Dates: Sep 22nd -> Oct 22nd (30 days)
Project By: Cherry Jane Potts
£512
current pledge level
Last Updated: October 22 @ 05:17 -0400 GMT
20%
of goal
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Latest News
A Message from the Poet - Michael Shann 
October 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks so much to everyone who has pledged to pre-order a copy of Meeting John Clare at High Beach or another item in support of the book. I really appreciate your backing. Selling books of poetry is hard enough as it is, but selling an idea for a... (Read More)
and the endorsements keep rolling in
October 9th - via: kickstarter.com
“To wander Epping Forest with Michael Shann's book as your field guide is, as he says, to step on the tail of ‘a slender creature’ and ‘follow / the supple curve of its spine’. In conversation with other literary inhabitants of the Forest,... (Read More)
Yet another endorsement
October 8th - via: kickstarter.com
It does seem that people in the know like this book. This is from Ruth Wiggins, author of poetry collections with Shearsman and the Emma Press. Michael Shann’s first collection offers a holistic glimpse into the ‘People’s Forest’, the ancient... (Read More)
and another endorsement!
October 6th - via: kickstarter.com
such lovely things being said by lovely people. we won't squeeze them all onto the back of the book at this rate - it'll be a sentence each, but what sentences! this from Paul McGrane, author of two poetry collections with Indigo Dreams and... (Read More)
more endorsements, some added rewards
October 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to our latest backers, we appreciate you! I realised I had created a reward but not added it to a tier, so there is now a reward of 3 poems as an audio file available. I also didn't really understand the late pledge business, and have decided... (Read More)
we've had another endorsement and another video on the way
September 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Poet Graham Clifford has sent us this: Auden’s view was that a poet's hope is to be ‘...like some valley cheese/ local, but prized elsewhere.’ Michael Shann’s poems manage this by starting local then opening up deliciously. Parenthood,... (Read More)
Thank you to our first 12 backers
September 29th - via: kickstarter.com
We've reached 8% funded in 8 days, we need to more than triple that rate if we have any hope of hitting our target. If you know anyone who might support us, please share the link! In the meantime, here's another endorsement. Take a playfully lyrical... (Read More)
News on the project: 1st Cover Endorsement
September 24th - via: kickstarter.com
This tender and evocative collection of poems celebrates and reveres Epping Forest, a place the speaker of these poems knows intimately, and which provides both nurture and creative inspiration. Encounters with long-dead writers, quiet moments of... (Read More)
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