The poet William Wordsworth wrote about encounters with people on the move, as he walked English roads and byways 200 years ago. These poems, and those of fellow poet Coleridge, were published as Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Our project is a reply, in poems and song, from people today who are affected by homelessness, or vulnerable. Supported by the Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery Players.
By Julia Grime Our first workshop with Tom Harrison House in Liverpool – a glorious sunny day in the shadow of the Anfield football ground. In a bright room with…
Cumbria, woodland. June 22 When I first see him coming through the woods, I think he’s a paratrooper. Camouflage flak jacket and trousers and a purple beanie. I keep looking…
Wordsworth’s Sonnets Transposed for the 21st Century I am in awe of the team at Zwiebelfish for their on-going projects with homeless people in the North West of England, for…
Making the new Lyrical Ballads is a long, painstaking process, punctuated with both light and dark moments. The journey into memory that’s sometimes difficult and beyond the comfort zones of…
Behind the life experience of many people in this project is fear. It surfaces briefly and then it dives deep again beneath the human skin of politeness, or bravado, or…
The first poem to arrive in my inbox was “As Pale As Roses Are”. Something within me stopped. Or rather it was the tendency to be distracted by many things…
One of the most moving poems in Wordsworth’s original 1798 Lyrical Ballads describes a penniless old man walking down a road so slow, so quiet, that he doesn’t even disturb…
“4000 Miles” is one of the first poems written for Refuge from the Ravens. At the time of writing this poem in Lancaster, Michael (who was the main writer) had…
By Scott Thurston Today I had the pleasure of taking part in a Refugee from the Ravens event as people from Manna House in Kendal visited the Wordsworth Museum at…
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