reading & writing with mrs merrifield
Date : March 18, 2026
reading and writing with mrs merrifield
a full bloom bestowed
like rust of salt
yellow past like amber
froth from the sea
blew dry smalt
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On Saturday 21 March, please join me at
The Slade School of Art’s
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VIII
free registration HERE
I’ll be reading three new poems
gleaned from recent research at
Historic Deerfield Memorial Library--
works/translations of Mrs Merrifield,
Isaac Newton and other colour writers.
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[images from Syme’s “Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours’ found in the Stephen L. Wolf Collection at Historic Deerfield Library]
[Brece Honeycutt, reading & writing with mrs merrifield {graphite, tea, gouache, watercolor on paper}, featured in the online exhibition, The Nomenclature of Colours, The Slade School of Art]
[listen here via Soundcloud to hear me read, ‘reading & writing with mrs merrifield']










