Rehomed, Renamed
As part of the 2024 Summer School, Newcastle University's Writing Poetry MA students were poets-in-residence at the Great North Museum Hancock. Around the museum you can find poems written by the students during the Summer School.
The professional writing residency with the GNM:H encouraged new ways to engage with the museum’s collections, history, and modern cultural presence. It allowed the students to explore new perspectives to the way they approach writing.
Further information about the Writing Poetry MA can be found on the Newcastle University website.
Writing Poetry MA | Postgraduate | Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)
Temporary Poem
Temporary
ExhibitionPoem
A way of looking
at all that's missing,
or pointing to
what hasn't been
seen, or afforded
its place. Yet.
A put-it-right-here
space for facing
facts, and including
all of us left out
of the story so far.
A pop-up setting
asking more of us,
listening more. What
do we all really
care for? What
do we care about
permanently.
Wildlife, plant life,
our changing lives?
What do we agree
that we can all
remember, recall
together?
Temporarily, we
might not have all
the answers, but we
know the questions,
age-old questions,
old as the hills.
Oenone Thomas
