Poet and artist, Rose Flint, provides inspiration and encouragement for the Festival’s poetry workshop.
Rose Flint is a poet and artist. She was brought up in the Midlands, on the edge of a town where there were still heavy horses in the fields and kingfishers in the garden. Water and light, earth and its creatures were always the joyous background to creativity. Some times there was more writing, sometimes more art. She trained as a sculptor at Hammersmith College of Art, but after the breakdown of her first marriage took her two daughters to live on the Welsh Borders where she began to write again.
A committed environmentalist and feminist, she became involved in green politics and ecology. She spent five years apprenticed to a Native American shaman and works with the Goddess movement in Glastonbury as priestess and poet. Her poetry reflects her love of earth, her interest in Celtic mythology, and a sense of the spirit that resides in all nature.
She taught Creative Writing in schools and became a regular tutor for Ty Newydd. She is now an Art Therapist and works with poetry in healthcare as Lead Writer for the Kingfisher Project, taking writing into wards, community groups and special units. After several years with the project, she has worked in many different areas of Salisbury Hospital including Spinal, Burns, Palliative Care and Oncology. She teaches on the Writing for Creative Purposes course at Bristol University.
Saturday 17th September 2011
10.00am – 12.00pm
At Westbury Library
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