As I have had to scale back my activities in general due to completing my PhD thesis I have recently been unable to schedule regular workshops I have however written one you can do on your own or with a…
Broken Resolutions Workshop and Poem by Anna Percy
Here is the Broken Resolutions workshop if you wish to do it yourself at home. And poem from me this is very much a workshop draft and of course I was running the workshop so my attention was mainly on…
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Stirred Workshop Margaret Atwood
This month’s belated workshop is online only due to my being delayed in Norwich. Set a timer for five ten or fifteen minutes if you are feeling brave and free write until the timer stops. This means you just keep…
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Stirred: Monsters
Monsters-define ‘Human monsters have been attributed to intercourse between women and the devil’-Wiki ‘a large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature….a thing of extraordinary or daunting size.’ Google Our next performance evening is on Monday 31st October, the night of All…
National Poetry Day 2016
”I awake in the smell of his hair & cannot remember his name, or my own.” Diane Di Prima, An Exercise in Love ”you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.” Warsan Shire, For…
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Posted in Events, Uncategorized
Poetry: After the Sensual World
After The Sensual World We taste of beer pale ale for summer and I am wet When we are clothed I breathe you in and touch The part that are uncovered We are apart I can forget how smooth your…
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Posted in Anna Percy, Stirred Performance Night
Workshop: Kate Bush
Just One Kiss You don’t need a mouth or lips or teeth to shape the phrase I want to make. You don’t need words—just one kiss to break the spell. Mmh, yes. If my hands could make the words weaving…
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Posted in Events, Stirred Performance Night, Stirred Poetry Workshops
Workshop: Female Beat Poets
Our Stirred friends gathered a moon ago to write a response to the female beat poets of the 50’s/60’s. Our zine submissions are open for the beat influenced or inspired poems, so get them sent to us stirredwomen@gmail.com by close…
Tagged with: beat poetry, diane di prima, female beat poets, feminist beat poetry, women beats
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Posted in Events, Stirred Poetry Workshops, Uncategorized
Workshop: Silver Birch
Here’s the first of our themed workshops for A FOREST! 1. Set a timer for five, ten or fifteen minutes and free write from the line: “Then one day she noticed the forest had begun to bleed into her waking…
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Wonder Women: Through our lives in these threads
Stirred Poetry performed as a quartet at Wonder Women’s launch, called What is She Wearing, run by Instigate Arts in March 2016. We were incredibly honoured to be part of the event, which was a live response to art and the theme…
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Posted in Events, Feminist thinking
Posted in Events, Feminist thinking
Stirred Feminist Collective 