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1 month ago | 
itsfreezinginla.com | Jemima Skala |Lola Young |Martha Dillon |Elspeth Wilson
How do you describe a mountain – something too big to look at all in one go? Do you focus on the peaks and crags, the way it drops off only to pick up somewhere else? Or on lines and shadows stretching messily across the landscape over which it towers? Perhaps it’s not about the mountain itself, but the life systems it supports, the birds, mammals, humans that make their home in its folds.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
disabilityarts.online | Elspeth Wilson
Blogs DAO Associate Artist Artist Perspectives Project blogs Film and Television Poetry and spoken word Neurodivergence Written by Elspeth Wilson When I became the DAO associate artist for poetry, I knew that I was going to be stepping out of my comfort zone in making my first ever poetry film. I don’t really have any video editing skills. I am not particularly technical.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thebookseller.com | Elspeth Wilson
Having my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, listed on retail websites was an incredibly exciting moment for me as an emerging author. Getting to do a cover reveal and having pre-orders open was one of the things I had dreamed about, and when the day came it was lovely – I received loads of support and excitement from within and outside my writing community. The one thing that was hard to deal with was seeing the book listed under the category "autism spectrum disorder" on Amazon.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
simonandschuster.co.uk | Elspeth Wilson
I’m ready to be part of something bigger, I told myself, whispering the words over and over, visualizing myself at the centre of things, never alone again. It’s the start of the new academic year and Ivy is ready for her future to begin at a prestigious university far from home. But her first year will be everything and nothing like she expected.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
msn.com | Elspeth Wilson
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Elspeth Wilson
As we drive along the bumpy track to get to the woods, the dyke that swoops down the adjacent field and up the other side greets us like a smile. It’s the day after the latest storm, and as we get out, tightening our boots against the cloying mud, Mum and I debate how many trees will be down following the wild winds that swept East Lothian. We take the lower path that bends down towards the long lake and immediately see a few skinny trees as the first casualties.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Elspeth Wilson
As we drive along the bumpy track to get to the woods, the dyke that swoops down the adjacent field and up the other side greets us like a smile. It’s the day after the latest storm, and as we get out, tightening our boots against the cloying mud, Mum and I debate how many trees will be down following the wild winds that swept East Lothian. We take the lower path that bends down towards the long lake and immediately see a few skinny trees as the first casualties.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
theunwritten.co.uk | Elspeth Wilson
The Sims. Twilight. Vampire Diaries. WKD and other sugary alcopops. Sleepovers. The Sims, again. I never thought the things that made up the background to my teenage life would some day fill my notebooks with aliveness, nostalgia and poetry. In fact, I never thought you could write poetry about these things at all – besides, I was too busy and self-conscious to write poetry as a teenager, struggling every day to just get through school and survive.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
itsfreezinginla.com | Elspeth Wilson |Christine Ochefu |Eirini Sampson
Elspeth Wilson, creative writer and facilitatorStar floweryour name comes from the skya gift bestowed in your flowersplanted in a graveyard on a coldParisian day wind whipping hair andmemories the of point of colourof brightness of future - thanking usfor our faith, the promise of soil deliveredin you Cherry blossom next to the building site. The undulating movements of a pigeon walking with only one leg.
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May 31, 2023 | 
disabilityarts.online | Elspeth Wilson
IF YOU’VE SEEN IT YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT is an exhibition of poetry and photography by DAO Associate Artist Ellen Renton, recently opened at AGITATE in Edinburgh. Renton’s practice evokes the slipperiness and joy of our senses, writes Elspeth WilsonEllen Renton is telling me where to look, and I’m happy to be directed.
