Category: Events
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Memory-gathering by Emily Downes
New recruit and Spoken Word Boot Camp graduate Emily Downes reflects on creating pop-up poetry with the TWP team at two special events this year… In summer 2025, Hartlepool Borough Council offered Tees Women Poets the use of the beach huts in Seaton Carew for creative activities, and I was lucky enough to be involved.…
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Digital Eves
We’re a bit worried about AI. We’re a bit excited by AI. We’re a bit intrigued by AI. We’re a bit addicted to AI?
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Pottery Poetry
Up on the top floor of MIMA, there is a shiny white room full of display archive cabinets, where a gorgeous collection of contemporary ceramics sit quietly behind glass. Delicate, paper-thin bowls and substantial stoneware vases, crazy spouts and glazed sculptures – and a flat screen spinning images of the wonderful vessels you can see,…
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Behind the scenes at a bookshop residency…
Stockton was buzzing, or maybe growling, about Home Secretary James Cleverley MP, and his very public comment about Stockton being a sh*thole.
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Rebellious joy!
Caroline Walling, the Curious Ink-Smith, is about to be the very first TWP poet-in-residence at DRAKE the Bookshop, so we thought we’d ask her what’s it’s all about and how people can get involved… What does a bookshop poet-in-residence do? I wasn’t entirely sure at first, but I had a LOT of ideas about things…
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These little tributaries of ideas…
We are nearing the end of our first poets’ residency at MIMA, which will culminate in Audrey Cook and Sara Dennis performing new work written in response to the art and audiences of the People-Powered exhibition at MIMA’s Art Social #13 this Thursday 26th November, from 5pm-7pm. As our poets prepare to share their work…
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The Quest for Queen Jellyfish
Over the Bank Holiday weekend, a crack squad of ten TWP performers had a blast playing Queen Jellyfish and her Rhyming Riddlers for Redcar’s brand-new family arts festival, Between the Tides. Here’s one account, from Patience Ezinwoke… “I will for long relish the pleasure of taking part in the first ever “Between the Tides Festival”…
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Getting in character(s) for Tall Ships
In just over a week from now, the docks and marinas of Hartlepool will be a forest of masts and rigging, as the magnificent Tall Ships race comes to Teesside – and we’ll be there, performing poetry in the personae of historic Hartlepool women! Sarah Crutwell is your host Fish Annie, who is joined on…
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Guisborough Folklore – A Tale Of Lost Gold
We’re delighted to share another poem from our Creative Writing Walks
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Storylines – poetry on the rails
As the North East steams ahead to the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 2025, local artists have begun gathering stories on why the railway matters, as part of the new Storylines project. Among the commissioned artists are two Tees Women Poets – Lizzie Lovejoy and Carmen Marcus. Their journeys will follow the…
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