Led by Christy Ducker, poet and Catch Your Breath writer-in-residence.

Join poet and Catch Your Breath writer-in-residence Christy Ducker for a writing workshop inspired by the Catch Your Breath exhibition (24 November 2018 – 17 March 2019). Christy will guide you through writing in response to art, artefacts and ideas from around the world evoked by the exhibition, thinking about breath and respiratory health in new ways. Expect to play with breath in the poetic line, and let the air into your writing!

Suitable for all writing abilities.

Christy Ducker is a poet and teacher of creative writing. Her first full-length collection Skipper was published in 2015, and includes work commended by the Forward Prize judges. Her pamphlet Armour (2011) was a PBS Pamphlet Choice. Two further pamphlets – Heroes (2016) and Messenger (2017) – have since followed. Her commissions include residencies with Port of Tyne, English Heritage, Edinburgh Surgeons’ Hall Museum, and York University’s Centre for Immunology and Infection; she also devised and directed North East Heroes, an archives and education project funded by Arts Council England. Christy has recently been working as a research fellow on poetry and health at Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice.

This workshop will take place in the Catch Your Breath exhibition gallery. Due to limited ticket numbers, please ensure that you book in advance to avoid disappointment. If you have any queries, please visit our website or contact us at pg.custodian@durham.ac.uk.

This event is part the programme of events for Catch Your Breath (24 November 2018 – 17 March 2019), a free winter exhibition at Palace Green Library.