Social Yet Distanced: Be FEARED. A Pixie with a Switchblade Tongue with Jane Burn and Dr. Fran Lock

Jane Burn, poet and artist   Pamphlets include:  Fat Around the Middle  (Talking Pen, 2015)   Tongues of Fire  (BLERoom, 2016).  Her collections of mention are more to it than bubbles  (Indigo Dreams, 2016),  This Game of Strangers  (Wyrd Harvest Press, 2017, co-written with Bob Beagrie),  One of These Dead Places  (Culture Matters, 2017),  Fleet,  (Wyrd Harvest Press, 2018),  Remnants  (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019, again written with Bob Beagrie),  Yan, Tan, Tether (Indigo Dreams Press, 2020).  Her poems have been nominated for the Forward and Pushcart prize,  and she has placed in a number of poetry competitions.  She is a fellow Associate Editor at Culture Matters, with our own Dr. Fran Lock, where they  worked together on Witches, Warriors, Workers, an anthology of contemporary women's poetry.  Jane lives an eco-friendly lifestyle in a wooden cottage in Northumberland. Many of her poems are about her adoration of language and how it connects her to the many passions and parts of her life. She is working-class, a wife, a mother, bisexual, a poet, an artist and a maker. She is also late-diagnosed autistic, and this diagnosis she says has helped everything finally make sense. She is currently doing an MA in Writing Poetry at Newcastle University. And her next collection, Be Feared, is due out in November from Nine Arches Press. She also plays a rather fabulous ukulele.  ************************************ Opening TunePoemBomb from Rich Ferguson. " "Everything Is Radiant," credit the drummer Butch Norton (co-founder of The Eels and currently Lucinda Williams' drummer). Butch played drums on this track. Created remotely during quarantine. Rich Ferguson rich-ferguson.com youtube.com/fuzzydoodah facebook.com/rich.ferguson1 https://www.instagram.com/fergiebeat/ http://richrantferguson.tumblr.com/ https://richrantblog.wordpress.com Twitter: @Versiferguson wevoicesing.com -- síocháin, and solidarity,