OdeHeart | Self Authorship

Trying to Reclaim Play, One Word at a Time.

The Equinox tilts everything in my head, and I finally come to notice my need to write because it’s how I play, and how I pay attention to myself.

Mar 20 • 

Hayley Frances

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December 2024

POEM. Notice this body is no different.

A commissioned eco-poem written as memoir to document and capture the importance of reconnecting with land, place, self and nature.

Dec 5, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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October 2024

Grief, Trauma and the Healing Power of Words.

An open conversation on the Rooted Healing Podcast 'where stories heal with words that weave us closer to our wild and inter-relational nature'

Oct 17, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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September 2024

Becoming an author.

An exclusive share of the introduction of my book to honour publication, and celebrate finally becoming an author.

Sep 29, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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August 2024

Tending our inner and outer world

A grief ceremony with Rooted Healing

Published on Grief Balm • Aug 29, 2024

I've written a poetry collection

and here's the cover.

Aug 9, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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Me-as-You-are.

Seeing the good and feeling the bad; losing our joy in other people's suffering.

Aug 4, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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Administer the Laughing Gas

Book Launch October 6th @ Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham Literature Festival.

Aug 1, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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July 2024

Shirking ourselves

and finding ourselves in poetry; a process of working in rehabilitation as a therapeutic poet.

Jul 14, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

June 2024

Motherhood did not come easily.

An infinite story on how interpersonal grief (losses of Motherhood) initiated a witnessing of the deepest grief of all, the loss of Mother Earth.

Jun 26, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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March 2024

My boyfriend loved it, but didn't 'get' all of it.

A 'Sonnenizio' on a line from Kim Addonizio's Sonnenizio on a line from Drayton.

Mar 21, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances

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Hippie Crack

Realising trauma's confusion of the mind. A poem from my debut collection & reflections on self-discovery through writing.

Mar 3, 2024 • 

Hayley Frances