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From 2022, I’ve actively made myself visible again as a working poet, collaborating with the Quantock Poetry Trail project. From this initiative, has sprung a group of 11 poets with whom, I walk, write and perform poetry.
Previously, I successfully performed my poetry on the national UK poetry scene from the late 1980’s to the early 2000’s. In 1998 when my daughter was born, I made a conscious decision to re-focus my creative energies into being a mother, wife & teacher educator at Plymouth University, putting performing my poetry on hold. However, for the last 25 years, I’ve continued to write & refine my poetry.
Being engaged in the Quantock Poetry Trail Project has motivated me to work with digital technologies. I have embraced walking as a form of contemplation; walking for managing my post-traumatic growth after the death of my 21 year old daughter in 2019. During my mindful meditations into coombes, over barrows and along ancient tracks in the Quantock Hills, I have reconnected with the healing energies of trees, the natural environment and the spirits of our ancestors. I walk alone, with fellow poets, during day & night, through the wildness & warmth of the seasons.
My poems explore recurrent themes of fragility & resilience of the human condition; of love, grief, motherhood, climate crisis, technology & intimate relations with people who appear in our lives as we navigate our often, unpredictable journeys of existence. Natural, urban, art gallery & site-specific environments feature as locations that influence my continuing questioning of identity, belonging & our connectedness to each other & planet earth.
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VIV GRANT’S POEMS
Quantock Poetry Trail 