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.
The act of sitting in silence. Except it’s never really silence is it? There’s always the rushing world, with its traffic and talk. There’s always air-conditioning, or the sound of…
Making a ballad in answer to Wordsworth’s poem Goody Blake and Harry Gill and the current energy crisis. Blogged by songwriter/musicians Matt Hill and Christine Johnson. THE REVENGE OF GOODY…
Making sounds and poems in answer to Wordsworth. Sound artist Sophie Cooper writes about a day of taking her trombone around the Ravens workshops at Invisible (Manchester) and Back on…
The “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” is a myth fast-frozen into a poem written 200 years ago. A poem so famous, so powerful in our culture, that it’s become a…
He was holding a sleeping bag draped over his arm, it dragged along the ground after him. His eyes were blurry, speech mumbled. The last time I saw him he’d…
LDHAS Feb/Mar 22 LDHAS is a small prefab building, looking like a little, lost bungalow, on the edge of a car park in town centre Lancaster. Every weekday, people who…
What remains in my mind is one short conversation. I’m writing in the evening after this workshop at Manna House, on a day that was packed with many complex encounters….
Today was a nerve wracking moment. I brought a group of the poems back to the group at LDHAS, for them to see. People read through the work, thinking about…
The man who was trapped 14 hours behind the shutter outside Wilco’s. Became a Facebook celebrity with 103 million views… & only asked for a single cigarette Lord Nightshade Downward…
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