flow northamptonshire

With the Flow was an opportunity for schools and communities around Sywell Country Park and from across Northamptonshire to work with two award winning poets, Sue Stewart and Joel Stickley.  In a project that shadowed Charles Monkhouse’s Sywell Echo on the Sywell Reservoir in October, groups explored metaphors inherent in the county’s rivers and waterways as part of Northamptonshire Flow and East Midlands Breath of Fresh Air.

Joel Stickley, working with pupils from Sywell Church of England Primary Schools and Wrenn School, Wellingborough, led site visits to Sywell Echo in Sywell Country Park. Sue Stewart, with a group of mature students from around Northamptonshire, explored the Grand Union Canal Extension and young River Avon around Welford. These visits were followed by intense one and a half days of workshops in which the participants developed their poetry. The resulting work will be published on a poster/brochure that celebrates Sywell Echo in particular and the FLOW Northamptonshire programme as a whole.  

With the Flow was devised and led by Charles Monkhouse, an artist working in rural and public spaces and with their communities, and was coordinated by Sally-Ann Blaise of the Bells and Whistles Project.

A selection of the mature student poems can be found here:

The Source by Tricia Finch                            

River by Alex Ultradish                 

The World of Rivers by Lucy Anderson

Autumn Tributary by Steve Fordham         

 On I Flow by Plum Bignell

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