Eleanor had a great day recently leading poetry workshops for MMU in the ‘Edgelands’ of Crewe. Participants were asked to engage with the agency of all the objects in the space – that’s talking to stones and trees!
For more details and workshop exercises see here
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/Seminars/AH/GEN931_MMU
For an lovely account of the day by novelist, Jenn Ashworth see here
http://jennashworth.co.uk/2014/04/writing-and-landscape-at-mmu-crewe/