Current posts
Current work and a glimpse into the pipeline...
Further multi-arts work with people living with dementia
Storytelling commemorating the 20th anniversary of the planting and formal opening of Breach Wood, Hailey
A novel and a new poetry collection
Storytelling commemorating the 20th anniversary of the planting and formal opening of Breach Wood, Hailey
A novel and a new poetry collection
Previous posts, residencies and collaborations
2022
A Walk Through Nature – commissioned poems for booklet
Outside the Box – multi-arts research project with people living with dementia
2021
Thame Meadow Trail with artist Nicola Henshaw – storytelling and making with art installations
Creating with Care – multi-arts project across Oxfordshire’s six community hospitals
Smile Inside at Witney – commissioned poem responding to patients' and NHS staff's experiences of the pandemic
Commissioned poems for artist Diana Bell’s Nature Unlocked celebrating a year of Oxfordshire lockdown walks
2020 - 21
Poetry workshops with home schooled children aged 5 – 11 (on-line throughout the pandemic)
2020
Smile Inside project - two iID commissioned poems responding to self-isolating participants' stories, including a filmpoem with videographer Peter Anderson.
'Kamdenge!' A play based on a Ugandan folk tale inspired by BK-LUWO's Filda Abelkec, devised, written and performed by Kirtlington Primary School with Oxford Concert Party
2019
Collaboration with composer Oliver Vibrans on version II of 'The Coat' for the Royal College of Music
Storytelling at the Corn Exchange, Newbury's Memory Café
2015 - 2019
Creative Future Literary Awards Workshop Facilitator - nationwide writing workshops for under-represented writers
2018
The Travels of St. Cecilia - a cantata with Arne Richards of Oxford Concert Party celebrating Oxford's six twinning partnerships
Storytelling at The Corn Exchange, Newbury's Memory Cafe
Collaboration of Bonn's poetry group Dada war alles gut and Oxford's Stanza II - public poetry workshops and story-making and readings at Pitt Rivers Museum and The Old Fire Station
Syrian Sisters - a multi arts project in Oxford with Syrian refugee children using poetry, storytelling, music, dance and visual arts to explore the themes of migration and change
2017
Poetry and storytelling workshops in Witney Hospital
‘Waving Hello’ – a multi-arts inter-generational project with Oxfordshire primary schools, Campsfield House IRC and BK-LUWO, an Oxford-based women refugees group using poetry, storytelling, music and visual arts to explore the themes of migration and asylum
Collaboration of Bonn's poetry group Dada war alles gut and Oxford's Stanza II - poetry workshops and readings in Bonn, Germany
2015 - 2017
Poetry Practitioner, Making of Me (Arts and Older People in Care Programme)
2016
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for an inter-generational project with Dr Souths CE Primary, a local OAP lunch club and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
‘The Coat’ – a collaboration with composer Oliver Vibrans on a musical presentation of a story – Cambridge Divinity School
2015
Storytelling at Kidlington ‘Friendly Faces’
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for an inter-generational music and poetry project with Kingsmoor Club, Buckland CE Primary and the Ashmolean Museum
Storytelling at the Memory Cafe in the Corn Exchange, Newbury
Storytelling at Carterton Community College and Carterton Primary School - training Year 10 to deliver stories to Years 3 and 4
Storytelling at Witney Food Festival
2014
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for Crisis and the Ashmolean Museum
2006 – 2013
Writer in Residence at HMP Long Lartin
2011 – 2012
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party - poetry, music and inter-generational projects in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
2011
Voices from the Dark, Eve Women’s Wellbeing Project - writing and theatre project
2004 – 2011
Chipping Norton Theatre, creative writing tutor
2004 – 2008
Ithaca, arts projects worker - reminiscence and intergenerational projects using film, music, photography, drama and creative writing
2003 – 2004
Oxford Social Services/OYAP - two scriptwriting/ filming projects with young people leaving care
2003 – 2006
MAP project worker with young people at risk in Oxfordshire – using film, drama, music, creative writing, photography, sculpture etc.
1995 – 2002
Wigan Youth Service - Poets Ink, young performance poets - facilitator
1991 – 2002
Salford Women Writers, workshop facilitator
2000 – 2002
Manchester Survivors Poetry, workshop facilitator
2000 – 2002
North and South Manchester Hospitals, Writer in Residence
1999
Hospital Arts, Greater Manchester (later LIME) workshop leader - arts projects in day centres for people using mental health services
1997 – 1998
Manchester Alcohol Services, Writer in Residence
1994 – 1995
Action Factory, project worker - reminiscence and publishing projects across the UK
1990 – 1994
WEA creative writing tutor, Manchester and Salford
1990
North West Shape, Eldon Street Community Centre and Castle Hill Primary, Bolton - inter-generational writing and oral history project
1988 – 1990
North West Shape, Collyhurst Community Centre, writing workshops for elders with publications and readings
1988 – 1989
3D project - Asian Elders, Lilian Hamer House, Brandwood School, Bolton - inter-generational and multi-arts project focusing on journeys and histories
North West Shape, drama workshop leader Open Door Project, Trafford, for people with learning difficulties
1983 – 1987
Pit Prop Theatre, Leigh - actor
1982 – 1983
Red Ladder, Leeds - actor
1981
The Apollo, London - actor
1981
Oldham Coliseum – actor
1978 - 1981
M6 Theatre, Rochdale – actor
1977 – 1978
Theatre Centre, London – actor
1977
Library Theatre, Manchester - actor
1976
Dundee Rep - actor
1975 – 1976
Interplay Theatre in Education, Belfast - actor
A Walk Through Nature – commissioned poems for booklet
Outside the Box – multi-arts research project with people living with dementia
2021
Thame Meadow Trail with artist Nicola Henshaw – storytelling and making with art installations
Creating with Care – multi-arts project across Oxfordshire’s six community hospitals
Smile Inside at Witney – commissioned poem responding to patients' and NHS staff's experiences of the pandemic
Commissioned poems for artist Diana Bell’s Nature Unlocked celebrating a year of Oxfordshire lockdown walks
2020 - 21
Poetry workshops with home schooled children aged 5 – 11 (on-line throughout the pandemic)
2020
Smile Inside project - two iID commissioned poems responding to self-isolating participants' stories, including a filmpoem with videographer Peter Anderson.
'Kamdenge!' A play based on a Ugandan folk tale inspired by BK-LUWO's Filda Abelkec, devised, written and performed by Kirtlington Primary School with Oxford Concert Party
2019
Collaboration with composer Oliver Vibrans on version II of 'The Coat' for the Royal College of Music
Storytelling at the Corn Exchange, Newbury's Memory Café
2015 - 2019
Creative Future Literary Awards Workshop Facilitator - nationwide writing workshops for under-represented writers
2018
The Travels of St. Cecilia - a cantata with Arne Richards of Oxford Concert Party celebrating Oxford's six twinning partnerships
Storytelling at The Corn Exchange, Newbury's Memory Cafe
Collaboration of Bonn's poetry group Dada war alles gut and Oxford's Stanza II - public poetry workshops and story-making and readings at Pitt Rivers Museum and The Old Fire Station
Syrian Sisters - a multi arts project in Oxford with Syrian refugee children using poetry, storytelling, music, dance and visual arts to explore the themes of migration and change
2017
Poetry and storytelling workshops in Witney Hospital
‘Waving Hello’ – a multi-arts inter-generational project with Oxfordshire primary schools, Campsfield House IRC and BK-LUWO, an Oxford-based women refugees group using poetry, storytelling, music and visual arts to explore the themes of migration and asylum
Collaboration of Bonn's poetry group Dada war alles gut and Oxford's Stanza II - poetry workshops and readings in Bonn, Germany
2015 - 2017
Poetry Practitioner, Making of Me (Arts and Older People in Care Programme)
2016
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for an inter-generational project with Dr Souths CE Primary, a local OAP lunch club and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
‘The Coat’ – a collaboration with composer Oliver Vibrans on a musical presentation of a story – Cambridge Divinity School
2015
Storytelling at Kidlington ‘Friendly Faces’
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for an inter-generational music and poetry project with Kingsmoor Club, Buckland CE Primary and the Ashmolean Museum
Storytelling at the Memory Cafe in the Corn Exchange, Newbury
Storytelling at Carterton Community College and Carterton Primary School - training Year 10 to deliver stories to Years 3 and 4
Storytelling at Witney Food Festival
2014
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party for Crisis and the Ashmolean Museum
2006 – 2013
Writer in Residence at HMP Long Lartin
2011 – 2012
Lead artist with Oxford Concert Party - poetry, music and inter-generational projects in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire
2011
Voices from the Dark, Eve Women’s Wellbeing Project - writing and theatre project
2004 – 2011
Chipping Norton Theatre, creative writing tutor
2004 – 2008
Ithaca, arts projects worker - reminiscence and intergenerational projects using film, music, photography, drama and creative writing
2003 – 2004
Oxford Social Services/OYAP - two scriptwriting/ filming projects with young people leaving care
2003 – 2006
MAP project worker with young people at risk in Oxfordshire – using film, drama, music, creative writing, photography, sculpture etc.
1995 – 2002
Wigan Youth Service - Poets Ink, young performance poets - facilitator
1991 – 2002
Salford Women Writers, workshop facilitator
2000 – 2002
Manchester Survivors Poetry, workshop facilitator
2000 – 2002
North and South Manchester Hospitals, Writer in Residence
1999
Hospital Arts, Greater Manchester (later LIME) workshop leader - arts projects in day centres for people using mental health services
1997 – 1998
Manchester Alcohol Services, Writer in Residence
1994 – 1995
Action Factory, project worker - reminiscence and publishing projects across the UK
1990 – 1994
WEA creative writing tutor, Manchester and Salford
1990
North West Shape, Eldon Street Community Centre and Castle Hill Primary, Bolton - inter-generational writing and oral history project
1988 – 1990
North West Shape, Collyhurst Community Centre, writing workshops for elders with publications and readings
1988 – 1989
3D project - Asian Elders, Lilian Hamer House, Brandwood School, Bolton - inter-generational and multi-arts project focusing on journeys and histories
North West Shape, drama workshop leader Open Door Project, Trafford, for people with learning difficulties
1983 – 1987
Pit Prop Theatre, Leigh - actor
1982 – 1983
Red Ladder, Leeds - actor
1981
The Apollo, London - actor
1981
Oldham Coliseum – actor
1978 - 1981
M6 Theatre, Rochdale – actor
1977 – 1978
Theatre Centre, London – actor
1977
Library Theatre, Manchester - actor
1976
Dundee Rep - actor
1975 – 1976
Interplay Theatre in Education, Belfast - actor
Key academic posts
2013 – 2014
Visiting tutor, Ruskin College Creative Writing department
1995 – 2002
University of Bolton, tutor BA and MA Poetry, Fiction and Writing for Performance modules
Visiting tutor, Ruskin College Creative Writing department
1995 – 2002
University of Bolton, tutor BA and MA Poetry, Fiction and Writing for Performance modules
Published work
Poetry
Kissing Bones – Templar Poetry, 2012
Unpredictable Geometry – Templar Poetry, 2008
Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves – Templar Poetry, 2007
Skin & Dust – Blinking Eye, 2004
The Girl in the Iron Lung - Crocus, 2003
The Fact of an Eye - Amazing Colossal, 1996
Harvest - Jackson’s Arm, 1994
Five Women Poets - Crocus, 1993
Beyond Paradise - Crocus, 1990
Unpredictable Geometry – Templar Poetry, 2008
Dreaming of Walls Repeating Themselves – Templar Poetry, 2007
Skin & Dust – Blinking Eye, 2004
The Girl in the Iron Lung - Crocus, 2003
The Fact of an Eye - Amazing Colossal, 1996
Harvest - Jackson’s Arm, 1994
Five Women Poets - Crocus, 1993
Beyond Paradise - Crocus, 1990
Fiction
To Hull and Back Short Story Competition Anthology 2018 - ed. Christopher Fielden
Parenthesis – Comma Press, 2006
Transmission – 2005
Bridport Prize anthology - 1999
guest writer for Queer Words 2 -1995
in Queer Words 1 and 3 - 1995 and 1996
Bridport Prize anthology 1994
No Limits - Crocus, 1994
Herzone - Crocus, 1991
Parenthesis – Comma Press, 2006
Transmission – 2005
Bridport Prize anthology - 1999
guest writer for Queer Words 2 -1995
in Queer Words 1 and 3 - 1995 and 1996
Bridport Prize anthology 1994
No Limits - Crocus, 1994
Herzone - Crocus, 1991
Single poems and collections of poems have also appeared in many journals including Brando's Hat, the Interpreter's House, Iota, Leviathan Quarterly, Magma, Obsessed with Pipework, Poetry London, Poetry News, PROP, Stand, the Rialto, Rain Dog, Tandem. Pat has done radio broadcasts and given readings in Britain, Ireland, Germany and the USA. She was a winner of the BBC’s Alfred Bradley Award in 1996. Her short fiction has been published in journals and anthologies. Articles have appeared in Poetry News and Warwick Review and fiction reviews in IOTA.
Awards
Poetry London Prize 2020; Artlyst 2020; STANZA 2017; Strokestown 2015; Magma 2015; Café Writers 2015; Wilfred Owen 2014; Guernsey International 2013; Torbay Open 2013; Keats-Shelley 2012; Rialto 2012; Strokestown 2011; Poetry London 2011; Bedford 2010; Stafford Open 2010; Keats-Shelley 2010; Bridport, Academi, Kent & Sussex, BBC Alfred Bradley Award...
Voluntary work
Management and Publications Subcommittees of Commonword, Manchester
Bolton Lesbian Line, an advice and information service for lesbians
Bolton Lesbian Line, an advice and information service for lesbians
Keeping safe
DBS Update Service Disclosure No: 001477123268 DOB: 13th February 1954
Public liability insurance to £5,000,000
CTC cleared
Public liability insurance to £5,000,000
CTC cleared
Relevant skills and interests
Full clean driving licence
Word, Excel, Publisher, Access, PageMaker, Photoshop, iMovie, Audible – I can get my head around just about anything
I play the ukulele with great gusto and some tune!
Pen and ink drawing
Art, photography, history, music, cycling, camping...
Languages - I speak French and a bit of German. I'm also learning Gaelic.
Word, Excel, Publisher, Access, PageMaker, Photoshop, iMovie, Audible – I can get my head around just about anything
I play the ukulele with great gusto and some tune!
Pen and ink drawing
Art, photography, history, music, cycling, camping...
Languages - I speak French and a bit of German. I'm also learning Gaelic.
Education history
2011
German – private lessons – continuation intermediate Abingdon College, German Beginners and Intermediate
1990
Bolton College, Maths GCSE, SEB - grade A
1989
Bolton College, French A level, JMB – grade B
1988
Bolton College, French GCSE, NEA– grade A
1972 - 1975
Manchester Polytechnic Diploma in Theatre 2:2
1972
Bishop Douglass Comprehensive
English Lit A level, London – grade A
Art A level, London – grade E
1970
English Language O Level, Oxford – grade 2
English Lit O Level, Oxford – grade 3
History O Level, Oxford – grade 4
Religious Knowledge O Level, Oxford – grade 5
1969
Biology O Level, Oxford - grade 6
Art O level, Oxford – grade 2
German – private lessons – continuation intermediate Abingdon College, German Beginners and Intermediate
1990
Bolton College, Maths GCSE, SEB - grade A
1989
Bolton College, French A level, JMB – grade B
1988
Bolton College, French GCSE, NEA– grade A
1972 - 1975
Manchester Polytechnic Diploma in Theatre 2:2
1972
Bishop Douglass Comprehensive
English Lit A level, London – grade A
Art A level, London – grade E
1970
English Language O Level, Oxford – grade 2
English Lit O Level, Oxford – grade 3
History O Level, Oxford – grade 4
Religious Knowledge O Level, Oxford – grade 5
1969
Biology O Level, Oxford - grade 6
Art O level, Oxford – grade 2
References
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Jude Barratt
Education Officer for Adults and Young People Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Oxford Beaumont Street Oxford OX1 2PH Jude.Barrett@ashmus.ox.ac.uk 01865 288078 Arne Richards Oxford Concert Party Ltd. 18 Greenfield Crescent Stonesfield Oxon. OX29 8EH 01865 806497 44 (0) 7788 174785 arne@oxfordconcertparty.org |
Clive Hopwood
Writers in Prisons Foundation PO Box 71 Welshpool SY21 0WB 01938 810402 07814274472 wipn@btinternet.com Prof. Jon Glover Humanities Department The University of Bolton Deane Road Bolton BL3 5AB 01204 900600 ext. 3235 jg5@bolton.ac.uk |
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