Well, the Cold Boat’s 1st
podcast was launched at our event on 29th September, setting sail
across the choppy cyber-waves of the world wide web and hopefully reaching welcoming
destinations and safe havens; not turned back at the borderlines of
prejudice, but given a fair hearing and safe passage onwards into the
collective consciousness.
At the event we updated on recent events
and developments: In the summer Joanne and I ran a Poetry of Witness creative writing
workshop for the New Writing North Young Cuckoos Writers Group, it was held at
Live Theatre’s new young writer’s premises – Live Tales which is across from
the recently developed outdoor space and garden at the back of the main
building. Having no prior awareness of Poetry of Witness the young participants
responded positively to the workshop in the calm and inspiring atmosphere of
the Live Tales creative space. We created poetry of witness from a news report
about a refugee family and discussed what it means to be a second-hand witness
to concerning events across the world and focused down on more local concerns
of what we, closer to home, may have been witness to and how those two
perspectives are linked by poetic expression.
We’re also currently in conversation with
the ‘Home and Belonging’ project which works creatively with refugees in
Newcastle, we’re hoping to run creative writing workshops with the group and incorporate
their work in an event we’re planning as part of a wider project funded in part
by Newcastle University, more news to follow as we get it…
At the podcast launch event I read Bajun
Matur’s ‘The Winds Howls Through the Mansions’, which is available as part of the
Cold Boat digital archive. Linda
Anderson read Ilya Kaminsky’s - ‘that Map of Bone and Opened
Valves’, which is available here: http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2009-winter/selections/that-map-of-bone-and-opened-valves/
We had readings from Joanne Clement, Bill Herbert and Sean O’Brien, which will
be available on this site soon.
We encourage audience participation
here at The Cold Boat, so in response to those poems we invited the audience to
make contributions of poems they would like to share, one brave audience member
accepted the invitation and read ‘Sorry!’ by Amir Darwish which is available here:
http://communist-party.org.uk/arts-hub/poetry/item/2177-muslims-say-sorry-the-poetry-of-amir-darwish.html
After the event we also received a contribution
from the writer Helen Limon, all of these poems have either been added to our
digital archive or will be in due course.
Please listen to the podcast, share it
widely and let us know what you think here, on FB, Twitter or email your
suggestions.
Solidaridad, The Cold Boat
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