Pine needles/snowdrops. Fresh earth new shoots.
New rain barren trees. Cotton candy.
Coke float. Tamarind.
Mangos. Honey. Apple pie.
Jerk chicken. Mississippi mud pie.
Calamari and salad. Mousaka, boats.
Monkfish. Rice and peas.
Maple leaves. Moody.
Running hot and cold. Vegetable soup.
Changeable omelettes, Spanish style.
Hibernation hedgehog. Slugs.
String quartet. Wind whistling through a hollow tree
Snowflakes falling. Children’s laughter in snow fights.
Ice hockey player scraping the ice.
Security, sense of belonging.
Warmth, family, music.
Things, heat, enclosed space.
Home cinema, talking whispers, belly laughs.
Pride, garden, front door locked.
Fence. Glass (loads).
Space, south facing, white empathy belly.
Writer in Residence - Aoife Mannix
Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. She is the author of three books of poetry ‘The Trick of Foreign Words’ ‘The Elephant in the Corner’ and ‘Growing Up An Alien’ – all published by Tall Lighthouse. She has a new collection ‘Turn The Clocks Upside Down’ due out from them in November and her first novel is being published by Lubin & Kleyner in late 2008. She has also been commissioned by Phrased & Confused through the Hub and Arts Council England to write and perform ‘Different Words for Snow’ with musician Janie Armour. She has performed throughout the UK and Europe as well as a tour of Taiwan, Thailand and India last year with the British Council. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM, and the BBC World Service. See www.aoifemannix.com for more information.
Writer in Residence - Sarah Butler
Sarah Butler writes novels and short fiction. She has been published by Pen and Inc Press, Route and pulp.net and has an MA in creative writing from UEA.
Sarah hails from Manchester and now lives in London. She runs UrbanWords, a literature consultancy which specialises in projects using creative writing as a way to explore and question our relationship to place. You can find out more at www.sarahbutler.org.uk and www.urbanwords.org.uk
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- Escape Attempt by Mary Pullen
- Ghost of the Dome by Mary Pullen
- Shock by Aoife Mannix
- No point in fighting a current by Fiona Moore
- Low tide by Fiona Moore
- Greenwich Peninsula by Fiona Moore
- A visit to the hoardings with signwriter Leo Ulian
- Sugar 6
- Some wishes for the Greenwich Peninsula
- Drop-in creative day, Greenwich Millennium Village...
- A Smashed Tile, by Fran Smitheran
- Gasometer
- Vision in the noon day sky
- The cabbage patch – jetty
- The Field
- I am the peninsula animal
- A Different Perspective
- This is the weathercock of London by Roy Collins
- Waiting
- A Walk on the Greenwich Peninsula, by Lichtenstein...
- Return of the Species, by Oona Chantrell
- Woolwich Barrier, by Oona Chantrell
- No Man's Land (Sugar 5)
- riding the timeline by Marina Collins
- Entrances (Sugar 4)
- No Compass
- Looking For The Dome… by John Ringrose
- The Future Is A Strange Place by Claudette
- A personal map of the peninsula
- More writing from drop-in workshops
- Ghost Story by Sophie Hope
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- Balconies (Sugar 3)
- A poem by volunteers at the ecology park
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- 2nd drop-in workshop, Wednesday 8th October
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