Lyn White lives in Kent.  She is a retired librarian but works voluntarily as librarian in the Guest Library at the 13th century Carmelite Priory in  Aylesford which is home to a community of mendicant friars.  She is very interested in the power of silence as spiritual experience and helps organise 5 retreat days a year for those similarly interested.

In 2009 Lyn ran a poetry day workshop in the priory gatehouse with the poet and writer Judith Dimond.  A further workshop is planned for 2010.

Lyn’s work has appeared in a variety of magazines including Equinox, Orbis, Smiths Knoll and South as well as in several anthologies, Night Balancing, Blood Line and Genius Floored.  She has read at various venues in London and Canterbury and was featured poet at Borders Angel readings in February 2008. She belongs to the common room poets, a group of seven women writers who meet regularly at the University of Kent.  The group produced their first anthology, Circled Like a Target, 2004 and their second, Mirror Writing, was launched at the University of Kent in November 2009.  Her passions are history, literature and the city of Rome.  

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poetry favourites:
Smiths Knoll
Equinox
The Poetry School

and in the shop ...
anthologies -
"Mirror Writing",
Categorical Books

"Genious Floored",
Soaring Penguin

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