This in-person workshop with curators, researchers and audience engagement teams from Oxford and English Heritage will explore how heritage sites have – and continue to – inspire creativity within communities.
Introducing the case study of a new collaborative research project, ‘Inspiring Voices: Poetry, Heritage and Community,’ this hands-on workshop will explore how researchers might work with poetic techniques to explore people’s relationships with place. We will share examples from our poetic and research practices, of how we have engaged with place and landscape heritage through poetry, and reflect on what poetry can offer this field of study.
During the workshop, participants will start to craft their own poems working with existing texts. Example material to work with will be provided, but participants are also encouraged to bring along a couple of pages of text from their research or studies to work with during the session. Participants could, for instance, bring extracts of texts from archival sources, scientific research, interview transcripts, or fieldwork diaries/journals
