Creative Future, a local charity that works with marginalized and disabled writers ran a creative writing course at Brighton Museum in January. The following piece is one of the many great pieces of writing that came out of the course. More of the participants’ work can be read in the pamphlet Museum Tales on sale now at the Brighton Museum shop, price £5.
Creative Future run the creative writing workshops in partnership with Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
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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