Tag: community stories

• 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.…

  Kirsten Luckins

  November 24, 2025

  By our members, Events, News, Poems, Writing resources

  community stories, family festivals, poetry, Redcar, Seaton Carew, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women

• 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…

  Kirsten Luckins

  April 25, 2023

  Events, News

  Carmen Marcus, community arts, community stories, Darlington, Lizzie Lovejoy, poetry, rail centenary, Stockton, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stockton on Tees, Storylines, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, train travel, trains, TWP, women