Dawn Gorman believes poetry should be everywhere - puts it on beermats, uses it to
work with people with memory loss, facilitates writing workshops, organises poetry
events and runs international poetry competitions. She is widely published, and has
performed in New York, Paris, London - and lots of smaller places in between.

“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket;
you put your life into it and make something out of that.” Mary Oliver

Melksham Remembers

A Century's Memories

Practice, Place and Purpose

Floral Feast - Poet in Residence

Poet-in-Residence, Beached, Stoke-on-Trent

Europe Meets Japan - film

Arctic Convoys Project

Beached

The Iron Duke Returns

Poet in Residence at Greenhill Cottage Gallery

Unexpected Excesses

Wiltshire at War: Community Stories

The Now in Then: Contemporary Writing from History project

The Watercycle Project with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Melksham Remembers

In January and February 2018, I worked with residents at Blenheim House Care Centre in Melksham to encourage them to share family and community recollections and stories dating from the First World War as part of the Melksham Remembers project. I used photographs from the era, and various creative writing exercises, including the creation of poems based on residents' memories and comments, and, in a subsequent session, helped residents to create their own poems from printed out lines of their own snippets of comments and stories. These latter were brilliant (one former English teacher had a particularly good time with this exercise), and we glued the resulting poems onto card so they could be displayed in the community area at the care home.