Category: Poetry & Wellbeing

Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community, Poetry Outdoors, Workshops

HEY! EARTHLINGS! Women sharing Shropshire

Between May and October 2025 our Hey! Earthlings! project has worked with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, creating opportunities for them to respond to our Shropshire heritage and landscape through artworks, sounds, words, and video. Last week we worked with a women-only group drawn from Telford Mosque, Craven Arms Mosque, Shrewsbury Muslim Centre and other community groups. As with the other groups, we … Continue reading HEY! EARTHLINGS! Women sharing Shropshire

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Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community, Poetry Outdoors

Making poems for Hey! Earthlings!

One of the things I did with the groups of refugees we’ve taken up to Old Oswestry Hillfort over the last two months was to create collaborative poems with them. The words were spoken by people from Ukraine, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iran, and then I have edited them together. Here’s a poem about how we all stood on the very top of the hillfort, … Continue reading Making poems for Hey! Earthlings!

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