poetry

  • Painting of thin man in the light standing with shepherd’s crook surrounded by sheep. A stout man is in the shadow, crouched low to the ground among vegetables. He wears a sour expression.

    Everything is Connected

    My summer began with a dreamy Fallow at the Farm creative day retreat. The people who spent that Saturday writing, breathing, and simply being were a compact, compassionate, and creative group. There has been little fallow time for my notebook and keyboard since. Thanks to a handful of commissions and grants, I have been in…

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  • Any work that wanted doing exhibition. Becky Cherriman and Becky Moore sit on a bench in front of the work facing the camera with their arms around one another’s shoulders. Becky C is on the left wearing glasses and a blue and silver necklace in long purple dress and gold shrug. Becky M is wearing a blue and white floral dress featuring a weave of blue cloth up the front centre line to the waist. Behind them, you can see ¾ of the textile hanging, from the top. There is a photograph of a loom at the top. On the right a patchwork of hexagons in different materials and muted colours interspersed by patches of ephemera. The poem is laid out on the left and centre of the piece in a regular pattern with gaps and back slashes between phrases. The writing is unclear.

    Any work that wanted doing

    Friday night saw the launch of the Leeds 2023 Any work that wanted doing exhibition at Leeds Industrial Museum and the beginning of Heritage Open Week.

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  • Opportunity for young writers to participate in online writing session/s with me and the Ilkley Literature Festival next week

    Workshop 1) Let’s rip up the rulebook and start again by creating fantastical and realistic future settings for our future selves and by using creativity to discover how we can all be forces for change. Workshop 2) Make artworks come to life and write pieces that move the reader.

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  • A NIGHT AT THE LIBRARY, A NEW JOB, AUTUMN READINGS AND PUBLICATIONS

    Writing the Night Residential On Saturday 2nd November, I will be running Writing the Night Residential workshop at The Leeds Library, a beautiful 18th Century private library. As far as we know, nobody has spent the night in the Leeds Library before and this may never be done again so seize the opportunity! This event links with the…

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