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Poetry in the Community, Poetry Outdoors

HEY! EARTHLINGS! Exhibition

The Hey! Earthlings! Exhibition opened on Monday 16th July in Oswestry Library, to coincide with Refugee Week. Do come and find it! It will stay in Oswestry Library until Wednesday 25th July, and then transfer to the Gateway Centre in Shrewsbury. Before you, you’ll find an exploratory, eccentric cupboard created from recycled furniture. You are invited to open the Cabinet’s doors and investigate! Inside the … Continue reading HEY! EARTHLINGS! Exhibition

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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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