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Prompted to Write Book Launch in Truro, Cornwall
on Saturday 18th September at 2.30pm, Truro Library - all welcome
Prompted to Write was launched by Lapidus Cornwall in September 2007 at Truro Waterstones. It quickly sold out its initial print run and we are delighted that a second edition has been funded by the
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust
The new edition will be launched at Truro Library on Saturday 18th September at 2.30pm - all are welcome to attend. There will be free taster workshops earlier that day - see
Lapidus Cornwall page
Prompted to Write contains articles, poems and stories by over 30 contributors who participated in a three year lottery-funded series of workshops and training events. Some of the contributors are renowned in the field of reading and writing for health and well-being and some are widely published poets. For some other contributors, the book contains their first published piece of writing.
During the three years programme, Lapidus Cornwall worked with a variety of partners including the Peninsula Medical School, Mount Edgecumbe Hospice, Cornwall Care, Arts for Health, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly and University College, Falmouth The book is edited by Zeeba Ansari from Truro and Victoria Field from Falmouth, both local writers with experience in running writing groups. The foreword is by acclaimed contemporary poet, Moniza Alvi, who describes the book as 'luminous'.
To obtain your copy you can:
send a cheque for £6 plus £1.50 pp payable to Lapidus Cornwall to 2, Burley Court, New Street, Falmouth TR11 3HJ
order it from bookshops
Buy from
Amazon UK
(published by fal: ISBN: 978-0-9555661-2-7)
Contributors: Mari Alschuler, Roselle Angwin, Zeeba Ansari, Gillie Bolton, Ted Bowman, Angie Butler, Caroline Carver, Geri Chavis, Dorothy Coventon, Cathy Davey, Llyn Evans, Victoria Field, Rose Flint, Fiona Friend, Rosie Hadden , Jenny Hamlett, David Hart, Rebecca Hazzard, Hilary Hendra, Elaine Holman, John Killick, Mary Lunnen, Eleanor Maxted, Bill Mycock, Myra Schneider, Sandra Sheppard, Penelope Shuttle, Angela Stoner, Jane Tozer, George Wallace, Claire Williamson, Rogan Wolf
New Lapidus team on Board
Lapidus has a new team of Board members, appointed at an Extraordinary General Meeting in Bristol on 31st July. The members also voted for a Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. The team, which is already beginning work on the next phase of Lapidus development, is as follows:
Fiona Hamilton - Chair
Clare Benjamin - Secretary
Chris Sims - Treasurer
Chrissie Evans
Jane Moss
Hayley Singlehurst
Angela Stoner
More details on
Lapidus Team page
Minutes of the EGM will be in the Members' Zone shortly
Forthcoming National Database of Arts in Health
A recent national survey asked practitioners and participantts to supply information to create an up to date map of arts in health activity in England. It will take the form of a database on the new national website for arts in health www.cultureandwellbeing.org.uk. The database will include organisations and individuals which provide arts in health activities and will be a resource for health providers across the country when the website goes live in summer 2010. It is not too late to supply information for this database - see
London Arts in Health Forum for details
Lapidus at Hay Festival
The launch of Lapidus Cymru was celebrated at this year's Guardian Hay Literary Festival at Hay-on-Wye on 3rd June. The hosts at the launch reception were Tynewydd, National Writers' Centre for Wales and the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling. Refreshments were provided by the University of Glamorgan. Professor Hamish Fyfe (Chair for Arts & Society - Univ. Glamorgan) and Sally Baker (Executive Director for Tynewydd) each welcomed and commended the role of Lapidus Cymru in Wales and Graham Harthill (one of the two co-founders of Lapidus) responded for Lapidus Cymru.
Lapidus Cymru participated with the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling in developing a highly successful panel event at this year's Guardian Hay Literary Festival. Tickets were sold out three weeks before the event to hear Dannie Abse, Phillip Gross and Sacha Abercorn read from their own work and discuss some of the therapeutic aspects of writing.
Dannie Abse talked about the beneficial aspects of writing his book 'The Presence' shortly after his wife's death in a tragic accident. Phillip Gross spoke very movingly about his daughter's anorexia and public perceptions of families with anorexic members. Sacha Abercorn talked about the impact of the Omagh bombings on her own children (they live close to Omagh) and the children in the town. This led to her highly successful project, reinstating the Pushkin Prizes (she is a direct descendant of Pushkin) for creative writing projects between schools in areas of political and social unrest.
Poetry & Medicine Programme clips online
Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine is a multi-hour television program on the poetry of illness and recovery. See
Healing Words
The project is based in California and its overview description says: 'That many nurses and physicians write poems will come as surprise to an audience of patients who have grown cynical about health care costs, impersonal treatment, and the intrusion of corporate self-interest in the doctor-patient relationship. Poetry serves to remind us of the spiritual mission of medicine. Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine will demonstrate the inspirational, therapeutic, and healing power of poetry'
Wendy French wins International Hippocrates Poetry Prize 2010
Wendy French, poet, writing facilitator in the NHS and previous Chair of Lapidus, has won the first Hippocrates Poetry Prize for her poem 'It's About A Man'. This was for the NHS category, and the Open category was won by C.K.Stead. See
News & Events for her comments
Read her poem and the other winning poems at
Winning Poems
Poetry & Medicine Symposium at Warwick University on 10th April 2010
More about the Poetry and Medicine Symposium at LapiDiary
Recently published - Motion on Protest
Fire in the Soul, a poetry collection concerned with human rights, is recently published. See
Fire in the Soul
Andrew Motion, poet, writes in the Foreword: 'anyone reading it will respect the urgency of its
complaints, and feel moved by the pathos of its situations. But
they will also be made to think about the way in which good
poetry acts on situations, rather than merely reacting to them -
about the way formal ingenuities and imaginative arrangements
allow the sorrows, deprivations and atrocities that they describe
to be at once particular to their own compelling occasions, and
able to seize a general truth about suffering and resilience and
survival.
'There is always a danger that artifice will not realise these
cherished ends, but will instead block or compromise the flow of
authentic feeling. That does not happen here'
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