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Antoinette Fawcett

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Editor of The New Comet and the Comet Bulletin for The Norman Nicholson Society: www.normannicholson.org

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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The photo shows part of a beautiful exhibition at St. George's Church, Millom, to mark the 70th Anniversary of the marriage of the poet Norman Nicholson to schoolteacher Yvonne Gardner on July 5th 1956. Yvonne was a talented, creative and supportive partner to Norman, enabling so much of his work!
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Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The photo shows part of a beautiful exhibition at St. George's Church, Millom, to mark the 70th Anniversary of the marriage of the poet Norman Nicholson to schoolteacher Yvonne Gardner on July 5th 1956. Yvonne was a talented, creative and supportive partner to Norman, enabling so much of his work!
The image shows part of an exhibition case displaying a photo of the wedding of Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson and schoolteacher Yvonne Gardner on 5th July 1956. The wedding certificate is also displayed and a small bouquet, replicating the bouquet in the original photo.
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Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Norman Nicholson Society AGM will take place online on Sat. April 18th, 2026, 11.00-12noon. Members only, but non-members may attend our Annual Lecture: 'Reading Between the Lines: Archival Encounters with Norman Nicholson' (12noon - 1.00pm). See our website for details: www.normannicholson.org
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Details about how to register will be posted soon!
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Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Our AGM will take place online from 11.00am to 12.00 noon on Saturday April 18th, 2026. Members only, but non-members are warmly invited to register for our Annual Lecture: 'Reading Between the Lines: Archival Encounters with Norman Nicholson' at noon. Full details here: www.normannicholson.org
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Norman Nicholson Society
Information about the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson who lived in Millom from 1914 to 1987 and information about the Norman Nicholson Society
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A wild day weather-wise but nonetheless a wonderful fieldtrip to Millom today as part of our ‘Poetry and Place’ module - exploring the industrial and natural landscapes which inspired Norman Nicholson’s poetry 📚🍃
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Very clever!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
It's a fantastic course and it attracts wonderful students. The Norman Nicholson Society is looking forward to welcoming some of the current MA students in Millom tomorrow. They will be investigating Nicholson's life, poetry and prose in the environment which inspired him.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Interested in postgraduate study? Join me online at 6pm on Tue 31 March to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism & the Lake District (with full time & part time study options available) www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
What an amazing poem!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
That is such a true and touching poem. Thank you for posting it.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Signed!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
That's an interesting version of cheesecake! I do remember curd cakes from when I was a child and remember making lemon cheese. Very best wishes too!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Very best wishes too! That's an intriguing thought, cheesecakes without cheese! Did they use lemon cheese, by any chance?
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A great read! I was enthralled by the stories of all the houses and characters, not least those of your own family.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I first read this beautiful sonnet in an anthology called 'Balletis of Luve', probably in 1976.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I hope you are successful, Fiona ☺️
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
There's still time to register for the FREE ONLINE Norman Nicholson Birthday Celebration which will take place 8th January from 7.30-9.00pm. 12 brilliant poems, two songs, a toast (virtual whisky), and a Birthday Song! Registration deadline: 5.00pm today! Email: normannicholsonsociety@gmail.com
Baby Norman Nicholson, smiling at the camera, in his white lace gown. Some time in 1914. Photographer unknown.
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Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
All are welcome to register for the FREE online Norman Nicholson Birthday Celebration on January 8th 2026 from 7.30-9.00pm - but the deadline for registering is Wednesday 7th January at 5.00pm. Drop an email to normannicholsonsociety@gmail.com if you'd like to attend. See: www.normannicholson.org
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Thanks for reposting, Sue!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Try U3A as the equivalent in the UK - record numbers of pensioners too! www.u3a.org.uk
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u3a - Welcome to the u3a
u3a is a UK-wide movement of locally-run groups providing a wide range of opportunities to come together to learn for fun exploring new ideas skills & interests
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The Gallen-Kallela Museum is well worth a visit: gallen-kallela.fi/en/
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Tervetuloa Gallen-Kallelan Museoon!
Gallen-Kallelan Museossa virkistäydyt Akseli Gallen-Kallelan taiteen parissa Tarvaspään ainutlaatuisessa kulttuuriympäristössä.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Clever!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Hi - yes, I am a Stanza member, but nevertheless do feel that more could be done by the Poetry Society to support the outlying parts of the country (not the Central Lakes, but places which are less wealthy and remote from any centre at all).
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A careful and luminous representation of the everyday, of the world as it is, which is also the world of the spirit.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Come to Cumbria! London is a far-distant country and there are many gifted poets in the North and North-west who would appreciate some Poetry Society events here. Do a Cumbrian Poetry Cafe tour: Barrow, Millom, Whitehaven, Workington, Carlisle, Penrith, Kendal, Grange-over-Sands...
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I will be teaching a course on Poetry and Translation at the wonderful Higham Hall from December 7th to December 9th: highamhall.com/course/poetr...
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POETRY AND TRANSLATION: DOORWAYS AND GATEWAYS; SPRINGBOARDS AND SOURCES - Higham Hall
The translation of poems is probably as old as poetry itself, while poetry is regarded as the primal source of all literature. Translated poems are doorways into infinitely various habitations, […]
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thank you! I enjoyed your essay. The fool's gold in the fragment of slate from Orwell's roof is very evocative (and would have appealed to the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson, whose poetry is so rooted in rock and stone).
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thank you for posting this!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
This Museum is well worth a visit.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hopefully with less of a London and southern bias than at present... ☺️
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Congratulations to Polly!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
A very poignant poem, beautifully set and sung with simplicity and true feeling. Thank you!
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Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
There's an exciting exhibition at Wordsworth Grasmere, inspired by the Wordsworths trips to South Cumbria, and it also references the work of Norman Nicholson. 'Sparkling Waters of Morecambe Bay' by Kate Tame is a beautiful example of this. See our website for full details: www.normannicholson.org
Sparkling Water on Morecambe Bay - an embroidered image in a silver screen by Kate Tame.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Norman Nicholson's prose is featured in a beautiful exhibition at Wordsworth Grasmere. See the Latest News on The Norman Nicholson Society website for full details: www.normannicholson.org
normannicholson.org
Norman Nicholson Society
Information about the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson who lived in Millom from 1914 to 1987 and information about the Norman Nicholson Society
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
That's amazing! I trust the OED though! (AI may be wildly off track...)
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This was a favourite poem for my students when I was teaching English - at every age and level! Try getting people to perform those wonderful sounds!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
'bimble' is a nice word! Did you invent it?
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
An amazing video and so wonderful to hear Sorley MacGill-Eain's bardic chanting. Thank you for this link.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
RS Thomas's later poems are really beautiful.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I will be teaching a course on Poetry and Translation at the wonderful Higham Hall from December 7th to December 9th: highamhall.com/course/poetr...
highamhall.com
POETRY AND TRANSLATION: DOORWAYS AND GATEWAYS; SPRINGBOARDS AND SOURCES - Higham Hall
The translation of poems is probably as old as poetry itself, while poetry is regarded as the primal source of all literature. Translated poems are doorways into infinitely various habitations, […]
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Highly recommended!
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Thank you, Sue! I'm feeling a lot better already... 🙂
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Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
@bsky.app Poet and Nicholson Society member Mary Robinson will be reading her poems with fellow poet Malcolm Carson on Thursday 23 October at 7pm at Cakes and Ale Cafe, Bookends Bookshop, 17-19 Castle Street, Carlisle CA3 8SY. Tickets £5 (including wine) from www.bookscumbria.com/product/cumb...
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Poetry Reading: Mary Robinson & Malcolm Carson | Books Cumbria
Thursday 23rd October, 7pm Cakes & Ale Cafe, Carlisle   Join Bookends for an evening of poetry as Mary Robinson and Malcolm Carson read from their latest collections. Mary Robinson lived in Cumbria fo...
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I'm sorry to have missed this talk. Not feeling on top of the world just now (flu-like symptoms)...
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
'Euridikee' sounds so much better than 'Eurydice'... 🙂
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's really very good and highly recommended. I was enthralled by her account of life in a Lincolnshire village not so very far from where I went to school as a young teenager.
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Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's an enthralling book. I followed the lives of all the real-life characters with enormous interest and a rekindled love for my long-past Lincolnshire life! Thank you, Alison, for all the research and passion that went into its writing!
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