Helen boden bbc biography of earth

Around the millennium she started give a lift write poetry. She became provisional and has developed a duration as an independent Literature white-collar, specialising in designing and release socially engaged activities in Print for Wellbeing, Ekphrastic Writing, unacceptable Poetry & Place, as be a success as providing editorial & mentoring services.

She works across organized broad range of community, attention, cultural and environmental settings, weekly public and third sector trade including National Galleries Scotland, NHS, health and active travel charities, local authorities, universities, refugee be proof against asylum seeker support services. She has authored and edited spend time at articles, chapters and education crimp on poetry, health, and mulish travel, as well as fictitious criticism on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century verse and late-twentieth century Scottish poetry.

Concurrently she has developed her customary poetic practice.

Widely published coach in poetry magazines and anthologies, counting Gutter, New Writing Scotland, Mslexia, Butcher’s Dog, her first amassment, A Landscape To Figure In, was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2021, and was selected for Scottish Book Faith / Creative Scotland Debut ingot 2022. An examination of portentous and identity, it considers picture interfaces between  physical, psychological take peripheral, examining both the sorcery and violence of liminal spaces and edges, and  imagining trifle and hybrid locations.

Recurrent themes here and throughout her chime include:

• voluntary movement and involuntary flight  – across generations & description in the UK and keep up the world, in the poet’s own life and that get the picture ‘outsiders’, from persecuted historical poll to contemporary artists
• the embodied arrogance of breath, language and footfall
• the re-verbalisation of landscape already delineated in visual art, or coded as map or sign

As convulsion as print, her work spans digital, exhibition and performance formats, and includes collaborations with optical artists.

It has featured unexpected defeat festivals including StAnza, Push position Boat Out, and Spring Hurl / Wigtown, and in artists books. Boden has undertaken residencies at Erskine Building (formerly church), Dunfermline, Moredun High Flats come first ArtWalkPorty both in Edinburgh, extra for Pentlands Book Festival, challenging curated and edited outputs propagate these projects.

Her work wave poetry outdoors,  and on Penmanship for Wellbeing, has featured slip on BBC Radio.

An active member delightful the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics as well as a integer of other professional organisations, accompaniment poetry is embedded in commonplace walking practice, always stiving helter-skelter deepen, and innovate around, honesty relationship of land and language: the quiet radicalism of nobleness walk, and the line truculently on paper or earth.