Welcome Hauntings – Happy National Poetry Day!
We are very excited to share with you the chosen poets and artists from our ‘Welcome Hauntings’ prompt!
We would like to celebrate National Poetry Day with these talented poets and everyone with a love of poetry.
As always, we also seek to honour Charles Causley, not only in our prompt that speaks to Charles’s fascination with spirits and memories that are embedded in our surroundings, but with our mission to create opportunities in the arts.
Charles chose to share his voice through poetry, not simply to amuse or allow space to ponder, but above all, to empower. We at the Charles Causley Trust wish to ensure that his legacy lives on, and that his voice enables and emboldens others to have the confidence to share theirs.
The chosen poets and artists and their pieces are:
- Sally Mills – ‘Ghost Bird’ and ‘Barn Owl’ illustration
- Jane Newberry – ‘Passing Stranger’
- Franziska Götter – ‘Phantasmagoria’
- Michelle Fisher – ‘The Widow of Bodmin Moor’ and ‘The House on the Edge of the Moor’
- Theodore Nisbett – ‘After McBride and Wiltzie’ illustration
- Andy Nuttall – ‘Please let me be haunted by a cat’
- Jonathan Sellars – ‘Granny’s Giant Fingernails’
- Sarah Ziman – ‘Vacant Possession’
The first of the chosen submissions can be found in the first post here.
Over the course of this week, all of the poems, short stories and illustrations will be published here on ‘The Maker’, so keep an eye out for these Welcome Hauntings!
Congratulations to all of the poets and artists!