Tag: ekphrasis

• 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…

  Kirsten Luckins

  May 19, 2025

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  Bottle of Notes, Claes Oldenburg, collaborative poetry, Cossje van Bruggen, ekphrasis, ekphrastic poetry, filmpoem, filmpoetry, how to write a renga, Middlesbrough, MIMA, poet-in-residence, poetry, poetry residency, renga, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women

• A poetic job application

  

  This autumn, our poet-in-residence at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art is Sarah Crutwell. This is our fourth residency at MIMA, and it was the hardest yet to between talented and passionate applicants. With a brief to respond to the Towards New Worlds exhibition of art by disabled and neurodiverse visual artists, it was clear that…

  Kirsten Luckins

  October 22, 2024

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  chronic illness, disability, disability arts, ekphrasis, ekphrastic writing, gallery poet, intersectional feminism, intersectionality, MIMA, neurodivergence, neurodiverse artists, neurodiverse poets, neurodiversity, poet-in-residence, poetry, poetry residency, spoken word, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, Towards New Worlds, women