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Jane Burn

black and white portrait of Jane, head tilted, blond hair, glasses with white and grey striped frames, and a smile

A Poem Begins

Lyric Essay: A Poem Begins, by Jane Burn
Revelations  01/01/2022

Revelations  01/01/2022

by Jane Burn — try harder  lose weight  skim the weight from your clumsy bones / make a bit more of an effort  get fit  this is a new start  forget / all the empty promises  grow your hair  vow yourself amazing 
portion of book cover showing a painting of a long haired person, blue in colour with what appears to be smoke issuing from a hole in the forehead and also the mouth. the figure has a gold halo.

Rippled ink

Charlotte Gann reviews Be Feared by Jane Burn (Nine Arches, 2021) 
A lake, with a hill behind tinted yellow, kind of sepia but are yellow. The picture has been taken from a bus and a faint reflection of the photographer can be barely seen

Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes

Feature: Lyric Essay / Autism / Nature / Around Me / The Lakes by Jane Burn

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