Helen Taylor ran 3 bespoke creative writing workshops at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 30 January 2020, 8 February 2020, and 15 February 2020. As Helen’s introduction explains, these explored our complicated relationship with food using the Feast & Fast exhibition as inspiration. Thirteen new creative works resulted and are published here as texts together with images of the exhibits from Feast & Fast that acted as visual sources of inspiration. In most cases the authors also provided audio files of themselves reading their new works out loud.
And soon, mechanically, oppressed by the gloomy day and the prospect of a sad future, I carried to my lips...
Ladies and Gentlemen, gather round. Thank you for coming to this exhibition. By way of introduction, I’m Reggie, and I’m...
The knife’s gone but the lemon’s cut rind uncurling whispers he was here soft skin caught falling sighing he was...
Beast Tongue, feast tongue. Or PRONK, An acrostic inspired by Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-84) Polyglotal throttle of calves Reset...
I left my eye on top of the sideboard. It had no complaints. It wanted a breather. It wanted to...
In the beginning he ground the earths by hand to make the colours. God knows creative work takes time when...
I Living fossil, Silver slivered, Endless spinner Through time To the buoyant beyond. II Naughty Lloyd’s Silver lip Cannot be...
The fifteenth-century San Francesco passionately dislikes Tesco. When he became a monk he swore that he’d be good and pure...
That girl was always making. Hers was clay country. Down by the brook that ran through the village of her...
Oily snow clings to roofs; Perused by two ducks, flying high Above a frozen river which Unites the banks of...
She is on their side tonight. A flattened pearl escaping the clutches of the dark While boats slide free, across...
that one hind leg caught in a snare hampering his leap back to freedom splayed against a tree trunk he...