Scottish Writers' Centre: The Echo Game

A Poetry Collage Workshop

CCA
Glasgow
7pm
Free

This workshop, run by the poet Gerrie Fellows, will explore how the technique of collage can be used to incorporate a diversity of voices into a poem. Our lives are a confab of many different kinds of language: from the lists of everyday life to the jargons of technology; from the precision of medicine to the emotive word stock of place or plant names. The aim of this workshop is to find ways of playing with these sometimes conflicting languages, opening them up to the imagination.

Gerrie Fellows’ fourth collection, Window for a Small Blue Child, is a sequence of poems about fertility treatment in which the language and images of medical technology interact with those of the body in the natural world. Described as ‘an exciting and important book that extends the territory of poetry’, it was shortlisted for the Sundial Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. New Zealand born, but long resident in Scotland, her earlier collections The Duntroon Toponymy and The Powerlines, brought together the voices and geographies of those two countries. In 2008-9 she was the first mentor for Glasgow’s Clydebuilt Verse Apprenticeships.

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  Window For A Small Blue Child - Gerrie Fellows - Paperback
  A poignant collection, 'Window for a Small Blue Child' tells the story of one forty-something woman's experiences of infertility and IVF. Gerrie Fellows reveals the reality of the contemporary IVF fairy tale: its scans and procedures, labs and Petri dishes, which may or may not cradle a future child.