Lyrical: Open Mic & More, Thursday, 6 June, 6-7.30 PM
Trowbridge Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, Wiltshire--
will feature the poetry of Helen Moore
Optional theme for Open Mic is: Belonging
Helen Moore is an ecopoet & activist, who will speak about and read from a new collection: ‘The Mother Country’.
Under English law a parent still has the right to disinherit their offspring. This book is a poet’s response to being written out of her mother’s will. Exploring dispossession in a range of forms – from colonial legacies in Scotland and Australia to contemporary impacts of industrial civilisation on human health, planetary systems, and our children’s future – The Mother Country is simultaneously a journey through sorrow, a quest for poetic justice, and a movement towards forgiveness and ecological restoration.
Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet and socially engaged artist currently based in Sydney. Her first two poetry collections are Hedge Fund, and Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012) and ECOZOA (Permanent, 2015), acclaimed by the Australian poet John Kinsella as 'a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics'. A collaborative bilingual Italian-English work, INTATTO. INTACT: Ecopoesia. Ecopoetry, was published by La Vita Felice in 2017. In May 2018 Helen gave the annual INSPIRE lecture at the Hay Festival, based on her award-winning essay ‘Is Love the Answer?’ Helen regularly reads her work at literary and environmental events and facilitates ecopoetry workshops in schools and universities. She leads creative writing programmes to support health and well-being in the community and has collaborated on a range of ecologically oriented community projects. Her third poetry collection, The Mother Country (Awen 2019), explores British colonial history and themes of personal, social, and ecological dispossession. See Helen's website for details of her UK tour.
Under English law a parent still has the right to disinherit their offspring. This book is a poet’s response to being written out of her mother’s will. Exploring dispossession in a range of forms – from colonial legacies in Scotland and Australia to contemporary impacts of industrial civilisation on human health, planetary systems, and our children’s future – The Mother Country is simultaneously a journey through sorrow, a quest for poetic justice, and a movement towards forgiveness and ecological restoration.
Helen Moore is an award-winning British ecopoet and socially engaged artist currently based in Sydney. Her first two poetry collections are Hedge Fund, and Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012) and ECOZOA (Permanent, 2015), acclaimed by the Australian poet John Kinsella as 'a milestone in the journey of ecopoetics'. A collaborative bilingual Italian-English work, INTATTO. INTACT: Ecopoesia. Ecopoetry, was published by La Vita Felice in 2017. In May 2018 Helen gave the annual INSPIRE lecture at the Hay Festival, based on her award-winning essay ‘Is Love the Answer?’ Helen regularly reads her work at literary and environmental events and facilitates ecopoetry workshops in schools and universities. She leads creative writing programmes to support health and well-being in the community and has collaborated on a range of ecologically oriented community projects. Her third poetry collection, The Mother Country (Awen 2019), explores British colonial history and themes of personal, social, and ecological dispossession. See Helen's website for details of her UK tour.
Join us in the beautiful Town Hall Arts building on
Market Square, Trowbridge for the first evening in a
new series:
Lyrical - Open Mic & More
If you’re a poet or a lover of poetry and all things lyrical, this is for you.
Poet and writer Diana Durham is author of three poetry collections, a novel ‘The Curve of the Land’ from Skylight Press and the nonfiction ‘The Return of King Arthur: completing the quest for wholeness’ from Tarcher/Penguin.
Diana has recently moved to Trowbridge, and is excited to host a place for writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction with visionary thinking and a lyric sensibility— meaning what is deep, in rhythm, intuitive and wise.
More below:
“…the "the visionary dimension is not something internal or even obscure—a private language or mythology—but actually happening around us in ways we don’t recognise unless we learn to see with a kind of bi-focal vision which is at
once literal and symbolic.” From Jay Ramsay’s Preface to his poetry collection ‘Monuments'
Please join us to read, listen and converse-
When: First Thursday of the Month Time: 6 -7.30 PM Cost: £3
6 June: Helen Moore, ecopoet & activist, who will read from a new collection: ‘The Mother Country’.
4 July: ’Making Sense’ a short documentary film on the work of Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of ‘The Master & His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World’, introduced by director Jonathan Guilbert with
writer Diana Durham. Optional theme for Open Mic: Escape from the grid.
1 August: Local poet and host of Words & Ears, Dawn Gorman and a group of other women poets, Strange Cargo, will perform a collective piece titled Walls & Windows, exploring in both poetry and conversation themes of separation and connection between inner and outer. Join us to share poems and conversation. Optional theme: Separation & Connection.
Please email Diana here for more information on buying her books, booking workshops, talks, readings or staging 'Perceval and the Grail'
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