Tag: Refugees

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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Poetry in the Community, Poetry Outdoors

A new project: HEY! EARTHLINGS!

This spring and summer I’ve been working alongside a team of artists to engage with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and help them respond to our Shropshire heritage and landscape through artworks, words, sounds and video. Our project, funded by the Heritage Lottery, is called Hey! Earthlings! More about it on the Participate website. From 16 – 25 June there will be an … Continue reading A new project: HEY! EARTHLINGS!

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