Lorna Dowell
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Ups and Downs
In Conversation: Lorna Dowell talks about her first teachers at school, setting up Poetic Licence, and how creative expression is key to general well-being and mental health
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Elephants
by Lorna Dowell — at heart we’re all elephants / compelled to cluster over the bones / of our lost kind we’re all kin / when it comes to grieving / though some choose to forget /
how we fall silent / when crying