Tag: writing

• Messages from the Bottle

  

  We’re delighted to announce our two MIMA poets-in-residence for 2025 will be Ann Cuthbert and Eithne Longstaff, with a collaboration inspired by the Bottle of Notes sculpture. MIMA are hosting a whole exhibition of work by the Bottle’s creators. The Secret Lives of Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen considers the role…

  Kirsten Luckins

  January 23, 2025

  News

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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,…

  Kirsten Luckins

  April 11, 2024

  Events, News, Video

  Annette Fuchs, art, Betty Blandino, ceramics, Deirdre Burnett, digital poetry, Kirsten Luckins, MIMA, poet-in-residence, poetry, poetry residency, pottery, Rupert Spira, Tees Women Poets, Teesside, women, writing

• 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