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arthur+martha: Cutting up poems with Robert Frost
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Wednesday, 13 May 2015. Cutting up poems with Robert Frost. Breakthrough days come unexpectedly. They are struggled for, wished for - and sometimes hope seems out of sight before they arrive. Today was a breakthrough day for us, I am very pleased to report. At long last the poems for The Homeless Library. Have started to arrive. We have been stocking up The Homeless Library. A selection of artist books made at The Booth Centre, May 12th. I arrived at The Booth Centre. The poems for The Homeless Library n...
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Exploring how writing relates to place. Advocacy & Ideas. Clients & Partners. Clients & Partners. I have been lucky enough to work with and for some fantastic organisations and artists:. Art on Greenwich Peninsula. Art on the Underground. Barking and Dagenham Council. Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. British Council, Malaysia. Dumfries and Galloway Arts. Great Ormond Street Hospital. Leeds Festival of Design Activism. Oaklands School, Tower Hamlets. Studio at the Elephant. This is Not a Gateway.
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arthur+martha: December 2015
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Wednesday, 23 December 2015. Detail from the quilt Bombers Moon. The inner, personal, journey for myself has been to try to accept the death of my father, Ellis. For him, arthur martha was a source of pleasure, curiosity, sadness - he continually asked about our sessions and the people we met. We talked about arthur martha right up until his death. As an old soldier he was especially touched by the interviews with another ex-soldier, Warren. Labels: arthur and martha. Thursday, 17 December 2015. Yesterda...
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arthur+martha: September 2015
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Wednesday, 30 September 2015. Asleep in the hedgerows. It's lovely when two projects come together and Stitching the War. S and The Homeless Library. It turns out that 'tramps' where a regular sight in the countryside in the 30s and beyond. Tom and Bill, (Bill, sorely missed) Social Group, Farming Life Centre. Asleep in the hedgerows. I used to take a dog with me and send him in first to check the barn, once saw a wellie sticking out of the hay barn. The hay barn near Ashford always had tramps in it.
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arthur+martha: January 2016
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Sunday, 31 January 2016. The Ambassador of Piccadilly Gardens. For me my first night it was throwing it down raining just before Halloween when the winter kicks in. I used to sleep in the gardens under the bench for the first few months. Didn't know if I'd wake up in the morning. It was a blessing if I did. 169; Paul Jones. I used to go to Cornerstones. I'd walk up Oxford Road to Cornerstones. Sit outside the doorstep on Denmark Road. Inside sat there reading the paper all day propping yourse...The Musta...
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arthur+martha: September 2016
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Thursday, 15 September 2016. There are just four more days for you to see the exhibition 'The Homeless Library' at Royal Festival Hall, part of the Festival of Love. It's open from 11am to 8pm everyday. In October it's moving onto a showing in Glasgow as part of the Outside-in / Inside-out. A festival of outside and subterranean poetry. A free ebook The Homeless Library can be downloaded here. The Homeless Library project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Monday, 12 September 2016. In their own ...
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arthur+martha: October 2016
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Friday, 14 October 2016. Jack Quashie, Trafalgar Square. Photo, Paul Jones. It is with great concern and grief that we hear Jack Quashie will soon be deported from the UK. We have never written a blog about one person before. But then we have never had a member of our group, a person who has made such a positive impact on so many others, receive a date for his deportion from the UK. Jack Quashie, 2016. For The Homeless Library project. Jack stitching a page for the Homeless Library. Currently on exhibiti...
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arthur+martha: June 2016
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016. Hellos and goodbyes: Sing me to Sleep. Yesterday was a sad farewell to our wonderful group at The Booth Centre (Resource centre for homeless people in Manchester) working on the project Sing me to Sleep. The group as normal split into two, one working with me embroidering the quilt, one working with Phil on poems. People quickly became absorbed in the activity, conversation didn't interrupt the business of stitching and creative writing. The theme today was endings. A map of you.
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arthur+martha: August 2016
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Thursday, 11 August 2016. I'd like to tell my journey so I can understand it. Part 2. The Homeless Library contains many interviews with people who are currently homeless or vulnerably housed; it also includes conversations with support workers. In this second half of a two-part interview, Katie who is a support worker at The Booth Centre, describes a day in the volatile life of The Booth and her. Reasons for working there. The Homeless Library project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Then volu...
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arthur+martha: November 2016
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Wednesday, 30 November 2016. I'm in the office at an asylum seekers' shelter with Gordon the manager, getting acclimatised to the place and letting people see my face, know my name. It's the very early steps of my poetry project here in Berlin, collaborating with asylum seekers. The shelter is in Spandau, a district in the west of the city, right at the end of the tube ("u-bahn") line. It's a simple, stark building, semi-industrial. Barbara who ran the Kunstasyl art project. Heaven-Proof House is a poetr...
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