Poetry & Conversation

Poetry & Conversation is a partnership between Kingston Carers and Rosetta Life.

The next video masterclass will be uploaded at the end of January .  It will be  a poetry workshop led by award winning artist, Lucinda Jarrett, artistic director of Rosetta Life  Lucinda Jarrett has facilitated poetry and storytelling and and song workshops for the past twenty years.  


She worked in children and adult hospice care, with bereaved families, with older adults living with the effects of brain injury and stroke, with families living with dementia and teenagers facing mental health challenges.


Lucinda likes to work with the art of conversation and speech and find the music and the poetry in the patterns and images of everyday language. 

Lucinda will lead this next Masterclass in partnership with Joe Lambert, a carer who is also an amazing poet. 

Here is an example of one of her poems: 


Alliance

Self-care for carers?

I absolutely agree

But don’t underestimate me

Care-giver?

More like care-river

I must be doing something right

As I’m still here

Deep in the trenches

A soldier in an endless war

The enemy’s intangible

Shifts and re-invents itself

Allowing for nothing

But uncertainty

I fight for love and will endure

So don’t assume

I’m in any way hopeless

I’m a survivor too

Please don’t dismiss me as disastrous

Just because I’m not in an office

With make up on

Like you

What self-care is there

Whilst in a crisis

In between the 15 minute checks?

Time out for rest’s not on my radar

What do you expect?

I run on autopilot

Doing what’s required

With love and dignity

I work 24/7

With no support, no breaks

So please don’t underestimate me

Work with me

Respect me

©Jo Lambert 2021 @poetry_byjo



Participants will learn how to create short poems from conversations.  Working with every day speech and the music of our own voices, we will demystify the art of poetry and make it accessible and easy to approach.