Category: Poems

• Scum!! The voices of Thriving Women

  

  International Women’s Day is here again, and with that comes the myriad voices of women across the world, shouting out their experiences, their opinions, and their visions for a more equitable future. We’re so proud to showcase the work of the Thriving Women collective again today, with a brand-new collective poem and film-poem called ‘Scum’.…

  Kirsten Luckins

  March 8, 2024

  By our members, Poems, Video

  activism, International Women's Day, IWD2024, lived experience, performance poetry, poetry, poverty, social injustice, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, Thrive Teesside, Thriving Women, women

• 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.

  Kirsten Luckins

  January 23, 2024

  By our members, Events, Poems, Writing resources

  books, Caroline Walling, DRAKE, Drake the Bookshop, how to write poetry, James Cleverley, james-cleverly, poem, poet, poet-in-residence, poetry, poetry residency, spoken word, Stockton, Stockton on Tees, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women, writing, Writing resources

• The trees are speaking

  

  Winter arrived in magical style for us, when seven of our poets were commissioned to write and record poems in the voices of certain trees in Stewart Park, Middlesbrough. Those trees were then brought to life with huge illuminated eyeballs, and our voices were broadcast to the hundreds of people walking past – all part…

  Kirsten Luckins

  December 12, 2023

  Audio, By our members, Poems

  Ann Cuthbert, Carmen Marcus, cedar of lebanon, Eithne Longstaff, evergreen, Julie Easley, Kirsten Luckins, Lizzie Lovejoy, Middlesbrough, nature poetry, Nightfall, nootka cypress, Peggy Carl, performance poetry, poetry, sequoia, spoken word, Stellar Projects, Stewart Park, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women