This spring I’ve been working with a great group of people who’ve been attending ‘Creative Writing in the Museum Vaults’. Ludlow houses the county’s precious and extraordinary Museum Resources, and this series of workshops allowed us access to the ‘Vaults’ and the wonders they contain. Throughout all of this we were expertly supported by Ludlow Curator Abigail Cox, and by Fay Bailey at Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery.
During April everyone can come to Ludlow Library and Museum Resources Centre, and read wonderful new poems inspired by some of the artefacts we met in the ‘Vaults’. And next week, there’s a special, one-off reading – open to the public. There will be cake.
Here’s a glimpse (too many reflections) of just some of the work on display in the foyer of Ludlow Library and Museum Resources Centre.
And meet the handsome Dr Hickman, and Lizzie Prudence’s delicious words…
What a treat
warm intelligence lighting
strong brown eyes
shining out among the dull
bewhiskered dignitaries.
If Jane had seen you
dancing across the
Assembly Rooms floor
she might have chosen
you for Darcy.
JEAN ATKIN 