FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 3rd
"Who Says" with Graham Hartill
Graham Hartill will set our work in the widest context of humanity's engagementwith the expressive word. He will consider the origins of poetry and stories
in the species and the individual, and look at various traditions of using
the written and spoken word to bring about change, from shamanism, theatre
and poetics.
Graham Hartill is currently writer-in-residence at HMP Parc, Bridgend,
for the Metanoia Institute. In 2013 he became the first Writer-in-Residence
at Swansea College of Medicine. Graham has published widely, both poetry,
papers on facilitation and books of co-translation from classical Chinese.
Of his collection "Cennau’s
simplicity and elegance of his words in their groups, echoes the very spaces
and washes of light that enhance his explorations perpetually. This is the
virtuoso work of a sophisticated craftsman…”
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4th
"Poetry
as Medicine" with Jay
Griffiths
Jay Griffiths
will explore how important poetry is, in madness, and look at the way metaphor
comprehends and consoles the psyche.
Jay Griffiths has
written for the Guardian’s comment pages and feature pages. She is a
regular columnist for Orion magazine and has written frequently for The
Idler. She has also written about wild skating for Lapham’s Quarterly,
and has contributed to The Observer, the Ecologist, the London Review of Books,
the Utne Reader, Wild Earth and Dark
Mountain Australia . She has written
for peer-reviewed academic publication and for the British Council. Her book Wild was
the winner of the inaugural Orion Book Award and was short listed for the
Orwell prize and for the World Book Day award. Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at
Time won the Barnes and Noble ‘Discover’ award for the best new
non-fiction writer to be published in the USA , 2003, for which her book was
cited as ‘cleverness in the service of genius’. Her other works include
http://www.jaygriffiths.com/
.SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5thhttp://www.jaygriffiths.com/
"Vernacular Eloquence - The Poetry of Natural Speech" with John Killick
John Killick will
consider how when large parts of the poetry world are taken over by academic
standards, we are in
danger of losing the simple lyric impulse and the vocabulary and speech patterns
of ordinary people. He will demonstrate how his residency work with older people,
particularly those with dementia, is blowing wide open pretensions and
preconceptions, and ushering in a new
era of what Peter Elbow calls
For the past twenty five years John has worked with people with dementia. He has published five books in this area, many book chapters and papers, and has edited eight books of poems by people with the condition. He has spoken and given workshops
in over a dozen countries, and broadcast on the subject of communication on BBC
Radios 3, 4 and the World Service. He was
Research Fellow in Communication Through the Arts at the University of Stirling Hebden Bridge (West Yorkshire) to Settle (North
Yorkshire ).
http://www.dementiapositive.co.uk/john.html
http://www.johnkillick.co.uk/
http://www.dementiapositive.co.uk/john.html
http://www.johnkillick.co.uk/
