100 Pictures – 100 Pages I have worked as Project Lead on this is World War 1 project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, due to finish at the end of January 2015. Through it North End Writers has built a creative archive of responses to WW1: 100 Pictures-100 Pages.
Engima: An Era of Wealth & Contradiction 2014 exhibition: Work from this project was exhibited at National Museums Liverpool’s Sudley House in 2014. This displayed work from the Sudley Project which ran from September to December 2013 for which I worked as poet and writing facilitator alongside artists Sue Williams and Steve Rooney at Sudley House in Liverpool with project participants from Mersey Care. This takes as its inspirations both Victoriana and the assemblage work of the artist Joseph Cornell and artists inspired by him.
Poet-in-Residence – Mersey Care: 2013-2014 working with older adults who use services of one of the community mental health teams. Earlier projects in 2013 involved working with patients on an in-patient ward and on a women’s acute ward.
The Tuebrook Tempest The Tuebrook Tempest project which started in February 2013 came to an end with a group visit to Speke Hall on 18th July. This writing and well-being project has had 12 project members and has been run by the Liverpool charity North End Writers. It included collective reading aloud of the play, group viewings of different film versions of the Tempest, discussions, group and individual writing including poetry, short pieces and essays.
Merchants & MansionsWorking with artists Steve Rooney and Sue Williams for Mersey Care NHS Trust we completed work on this project in February with the exhibition on show at Sudley House, Liverpool until the end of July. This is the fifth Sudley Project; working with service-users from the Early Interventions team we have used the environment and history of Mossley Hill’s Victorian merchants as inspiration to create installation works and new writing.
Writing Well – Writing Green 2012
In 2012 I worked as Project Officer on the Writing Well-Writing Green project for North End Writers (see photo at top of page). With the central focus on Stanley Park 15 participants created a project quilt, produced a booklet of their creative work – A Walk in the Park (North End Press, 2012) – studied Alice Oswald’s Woods etc.,and researched the origins and development both of the Park and Anfield cemetery – with a little help from Liverpool Library Service, Liverpool Park Rangers, Project Dirt and the Anfield Breckfield Community Council. The project won the Liverpool Echo Take Notice of Our World Environment Award (2013).
Burning Bright 
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