John Wedgwood Clarke, described by eminent Yorkshire poet Simon Armitage as among the best modern bards, plans to visit a North Yorkshire County Council household waste recycling centre over the next year to observe what people throw away and ask them for their views on waste.
The project will conclude with a collection of 12 poems and creative writing sessions at local schools through a project based around the Seamer Carr depot in Scarborough and funded by an Arts Council award.
Nice 'work' if you can get it...
Dr Wedgwood Clarke, Leverhulme Poet in Residence at the University of Hull’s Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, who has a Doctorate of Philosophy in modernist poetics from the University of York, said he had always been fascinated about what happened to people’s rubbish, which inspired him to begin a journey of poetic discovery with a difference.
Would be even more of 'a difference' if he'd funded it himself...
Coun Chris Metcalfe, the country’s council’s executive member for waste management, said: “This unique project will bring the message of the importance of reducing and recycling waste to a new audience in a very creative way.”
Don't you already have a council department doing that?
The project will conclude with a collection of 12 poems...
ReplyDeleteMmmm do they go in the waste paper skip or the one for discard dog poop?
Dr Wedgwood Clarke, Leverhulme Poet in Residence at the University of Hull’s Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences, who has a Doctorate of Philosophy in modernist poetics from the University of York
ReplyDeleteI have 500 of those, and they're four-ply and quilted!
In fact, I could do with a poet in residence in the place where I keep my doctorates. My own Privy Poet!
"... and they're four-ply and quilted!
ReplyDeleteHey up. The Bullingdon Club are in! ;-)
And...
ReplyDeletePoet in Residence at the University of Hull’s Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences...
Okay, you're at Hull Uni studying sea-weed, beach erosion and herring migration etc... WTF do you need a poet for exactly? Whatever happened simple observation, experimentation and hard science?
Seems that science has gone the way of alchemy. Now we have this bollocks instead. The Chinese must be laughing their asses off at us.
"I have 500 of those, and they're four-ply and quilted!"
ReplyDeleteLOL!
"Okay, you're at Hull Uni studying sea-weed, beach erosion and herring migration etc... WTF do you need a poet for exactly?"
Oh, Gawd knows... :/