On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Helen Calcutt about working with children, translating language into movement, and how her perspective on tackling sensitive material in poetry has changed.
Helen Calcutt is a poet, dancer and choreographer. Her pamphlet Somehow was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2020, and her collection Feeling All the Kills was published by Pavilion Press in 2024. Helen also founded Beyond Words which is a dance theatre company, which specialises in using Hypha which is a technique Helen innovated for translating text into movement.
Books and other things
Feeling All the Kills: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802074727
Somehow: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/verve-poetry-press/products/somehow-by-helen-calcutt
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We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.
https://www.beyondwordsdancetheatre.com/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers
Things to read/watch/listen/etc in relationship to this interview:
Tsaá with Helen Calcutt: Writing pain and love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqJZ6rXsVE0&t=1718s
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers - Dance Adapation by Beyond Words Dance Theatre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6p_cNyl5Ig
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