“Through the lungs to memory”: Writer in Residence Evaluation
Read the evaluation of the writer-in-residence programme we ran alongside the Durham exhibition.
creative writing
A matter of life and breath
View presentations from Life of Breath researchers, drawing on a range of different perspectives, including the lived experience of breathlessness,…
Sharing the unshareable
As part of her residency, Christy Ducker ran a series of writing workshops with Durham and Derwentside Breathe Easy.
Dear Breath: using story structure to understand the value of letter writing for those living with breathlessness (Penny & Malpass, 2019)
Can using letters help create a personal narrative and public story, generating new ways of relating to breathlessness? A new…
‘Letter to my Breath’ at Fun Palaces, Bristol
Life of Breath collaborator Elspeth Penny writes about her experience facilitating a “Letter to my Breath” workshop at Barton Hill…
Breath, Pulse and Measure
David Fuller explores how a new view of poetic structure based on the breath emerged in the mid-20th Century.
To Breathe Ourselves into Some Other Lungs
Highlights and interviews from an evening of poetry and song to provoke deeper thought and discussion around the lived experience…
Letter to Your Breath
Anthropologist Alice Malpass and letter-revivalist Elspeth Penny talk about what they've learned from asking people to write a letter to their breath.
2015-2020