Welcome to Almost An Island

Almost an Island is a writing project exploring the Greenwich Peninsula in London through words, sounds and stories.

Writers in residence, Sarah Butler and Aoife Mannix, will be blogging about the project. They will record their own responses to the Peninsula and the people they meet. The blog will be a showcase for new writing Sarah and Aoife create over the course of the project, and for the writing and words of workshop participants.

Sarah and Aoife will be creating a soundscape that will represent the lives and stories of those connected with the Greenwich Peninsula. They are running a series of workshops and activities to support this - check under 'events' for more details.

The soundscape will be presented at a public event in November 2008. Keep an eye on the blog for details

Almost an Island is a collaboration between UrbanWords and Spread the Word, in association with Art on the Greenwich Peninsula. The project is funded by Awards For All.

Thursday 9 October 2008

A poem by volunteers at the ecology park

Greenwich Peninsula

I am reed warblers building invisible nests,
I am skylarks singing behind Sainsbury's,
I am the ecology park, kids loving to learn,
I am your smile as you cut back the willow.

I am the whispering of wind through the reeds,
I am the crash of barges and the honk of geese,
I am a bubble of calm on a walk through the park,
I am the river, the beginning and end of it all.

I am floodlit moonscape, alien landscape,
I am burning conveyor belts and rafts of rotten eggs,
I am your escape at the end of a miserable day,
I am old, I am new, I am always changing.

by volunteers at the ecology park, 08.10.08
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