Jill Saudek

Jill Saudek was born in Oxford in 1946 and grew up in Marlow. She studied English literature at Newnham College, Cambridge University and became an English and drama teacher in a variety of schools. She retired in 2009 and now lives with her husband, son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren in South East London. She has enjoyed reading her own stories and verses to all her small relatives but writing serious poetry is a new venture, undertaken during the covid lockdown. Read more about the author Jill Saudek on her personal website at www.saudek-poems-and-stories.co.uk

Author's Books

Poems from Paintings

These poems were inspired by works of art, chosen across place and time for their intrinsic power and the challenge they present to provoke thoughts and feelings in the viewer. Ideally, readers should find a reproduction of the painting – easily available on the internet – to contemplate, befor...

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Poems from Poems

These poems are a response to a wide range of well-known poems from across the ages. They are written in the same poetic form as the originals and offer a modern perspective on their central themes. The reader is invited to look up the original – perhaps to re-read a loved poem or to explore unfam...

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The Mind's Eye

These three stories are designed to be read aloud to a young child. Unusually, they are not illustrated but aim to prompt the child’s own “mind’s eye”, encouraging the development of visual images which can be neglected in our screen-dominated times. The overall length of each story allows t...

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