Today I want to give a mention to Story of Mum a wonderful
website which is the brain child of Pippa and Penny Best and many mothers. This is a place for
mothers to be creative (even if you only have five minutes) and to share their
stories, support each other and to have fun. It is quite unlike any other
mothers’ spaces on the internet.
The website includes a poem based on the idea of a Kenning
which is growing line by line. At Milton Keynes Art Gallery Project space there
is currently a touring exhibition Story of Mum: mums making an exhibition of
ourselves. It is a chance in real life to see all the things that mothers are
capable of and this is where I joined the project. I was asked to ‘curate’ a
poem based on the giant collaborative poem already on the website and to read
it at the launch which was held on last Friday.
It was a glorious evening with inspiring stories from five
women followed by me reading the Kenning and also sharing a poem about my own
mother. I just wish Story of Mum had been around when my own children were
smaller.
The touring exhibition will move to Penzance in September
and then to the Photographer’s Gallery in London and in the future to New York
and at each launch there will be a new poem.
2 comments:
Thanks so much for coming and sharing your words with us! We loved how you interpreted the poem 'curation', and it was a complete pleasure having you with us. Your poem is up on the story of mum website here: http://www.storyofmum.com/content/our-mums-poem-curated-caroline-davies-1701 and we'll be sharing the wordles this weekend - such a fascinating approach and way of exploring how we choose to describe motherhood. Some real surprises in there!
It was great fun taking part in the launch and writing a poem for it. Poetry should always produce surprises.
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