Category: Poems
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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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Vox Feminarum – voice of the women
We’re delighted to announce the launch of our first spoken word album, Vox Feminarum! Earlier this year we were approached by Doc Ritchie from AVZounds with a request for poems to set to musical soundscapes, part of his practice as a sound artist. A call-out ensued, and the poems rolled in – here now is…
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Messages from a Bottle
Poets Eithne Longstaff and Ann Cuthbert have collaborated on a renga, a call-and-response form that engages two or more poets in a collaborative journey of imagery and associations threaded together in couplets and haiku. ‘Messages’ was made over a number of weeks, by email, to reflect the Bottle of Notes associations of messages sent and…
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From Teesside to Geneva
A special guest testimonial from Julie Easley Who would have thought when I joined Tees Women Poets that I would end up at the United Nations, for the CESCR (Committee for the Economic, Social & Cultural Rights) 7th Review of the United Kingdom in Geneva, Switzerland? It all started when Tees Women Poets partnered up…
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Formal introductions
What makes a poem a poem? Is it about knowing when to rhyme, and how many feet to a line, and recognising a sonnet when it slaps you in the face? Last week a bunch of us had some fun with the oddest, made-up poetry forms we could find – and then we made up…
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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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Writing Resistance
It’s been a turbulent time for so many communities this summer as rioting spread from the Southport tragedy, and Teesside was targeted as an early flashpoint. After checking in with individuals in our TWP family who we knew to be particularly vulnerable, we were left with that frantic feeling inside – what can we do?…
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Crowdsourced Creativity #2
Back in June we held a special in-person edition of TWOOMPH! (the open mic with OOMPH!) at Hartlepool Hub, as part of Crossing the Tees book festival. We always have shenanigans of some kind at TWOOMPH!s, and this time we rather cheekily nicked a poem format from the brilliant King Ink (James Whitman & Helen…
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Crowdsourced Creativity
You may have seen some of our recent socials from Love Local festival at the National Trust’s Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough. We had a lush time, sending a team of four poets to chat with the public and collect their thoughts and impressions into some communal poems. It’s all part of training some of our…
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Pride is for always
We’re nearly at the end of Pride Month, but our commitment doesn’t end. Our latest podcast is a taste of episodes to come in Redcar, and in it we platform a lot of queer voices and explore lots of gender identify issues with the young people of the Blooming Youth collective. Growing Up A Girl……
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