Tag: Shropshire AONB

Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community

Poetry, disability, joy and fog on the Stiperstones

I turned off the engine.  The car informed me it was 9 degrees outside on the Stiperstones.  Visibility was down to 20 yards, but I could just see a few cold-looking people pulling on extra layers in the car park. #5Sites5Senses is a collaborative project which takes people with severe disabilities, with their carers, out into the nearby countryside in the Shropshire Hills. It’s called Five … Continue reading Poetry, disability, joy and fog on the Stiperstones

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Poetry & Wellbeing, Poetry in the Community

Just contrails passing/ over us, & near/ a blackbird warns

We met in Loudwater Studio in Ludlow to work on various kinds of art reflecting the project ‘Loudwater Studio in the Shropshire Hills’.  All these different pieces will form part of a three-dimensional sketchbook recording the visits of Loudwater Studio clients to five different and special places in the Shropshire Hills. These beautiful birds are made from paper and Modrock plaster of Paris, with wire … Continue reading Just contrails passing/ over us, & near/ a blackbird warns

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