Woolwich Speaks – Photos
RevolYOUtion’s Fawazat Adeyemo.
Film maker Joe Watkins, artist R.M. Sánchez-Camus and poet Rasheeda Page-Muir
Artist R.M. Sánchez-Camus
What do you remember?The disorientation? That sense a tidal wavewas coming in slow motion? The thumping restless grainof nights no one could sleep, when each breath tried to washyou back from some dark sea? Were you very lonely,your mother in a fortress; too much time to think,screaming, shut down, listless? Perhaps you heard that bleepingmonitor…
Twelve virtual poets-in-residence write poems reflecting on the impact of the vaccination program, and the shifts and changes we’ve all gone through in the past year.
A new digital series of events, putting poets in conversation with activists and academics to unpick the words heard across the news and social media.
Featuring Dr Ruth Padel, the Reverend Lucy Winkett, James Massiah and Niles Hailstones.
Part of “A drop of hope”, a collection of poetry inspired by the words of those who have been vaccinated at the Francis Crick Institute, the reflections of vaccination volunteers, and the experiences of local communities
Quotes are verbatim, from the survey of those being vaccinated at the Institute. People have been coming here, to receive the vaccinationand have expressed their feelings and divulgedtheir situationto be made into our poems, for the public observation. What has been worst about this time and what, perhaps the best?Some reveal the sadness of the…