During July-August 2012 Creative Future ran a course at Brighton Museum called ‘Museum Tales’. Run by Liz Bahs, a published poet, course participants, all marginalized writers, produced the following pieces inspired by the Museum’s collection. At the end of the course they performed their work in the Museum galleries. The course will run again in January 2013. For more information check their website.
Creative Future run the creative writing workshops in partnership with Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
Artefact
You’re my pottery child
I kneaded you from raw clay
I adored you
but you never liked yourself much
you wanted to be
a Grayson Perry earthenware pot
the Wembley turf
John Lennon’s glasses
the Bayeux tapestry
Krakatoa
the Cerne Abbas horny hillside giant
Marcel Duchamp’s urinal
the Venus of Willendorf
the Mariana trench
Tracy Emin’s bed
the Rosetta Stone
a Lalique amber vase
the Seven Sisters
the Shard
Queen Victoria’s vast cotton knickers
the Okavango delta
Frankie Howerd’s last wig
the Cheops pyramid
the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway
the Crab nebula
not this
a stirrup cup circa 1780
in the shape of a half-potato
you brim with disappointment
but look how handsome you are
in your white pearlware
biscuit glaze gleaming
like polished ivory
Tony Spiers
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