Category: Video
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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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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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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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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’.…
Tees Women Poets 