Karen FrancisWord-wrangler, needle-wielder and poet, Karen hones her craft in beautiful Norfolk, since retirement from Education. She is interested in connections, everyday irony, small passions, and the less heard voices, that society often renders invisible. a other is a paperclip won Hedgehog Press 'Slim volume, 2022. Several other collections, My Father's Daughter, A Little Female Introspection, and At the still point of the turning world, have been Highly Commended or Commended in competitions 2021-2023 and she has work published in Hedgehog Press anthologies. Words can't be unsaid was published by Home Stage for National Poetry Day, 2021. She increasingly steps out of comfort zone for open mic slots in the online poetry world. Read More Read Less