Talking to Grief: Exploring how we negotiate loss in our lives using poetry
Schedule
Fri, 31 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Sun, 02 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Centre For Health & Pastoral Care, Holy Rood House, 10 Sowerby Road,, YO7 1HX Thirsk, United Kingdom | Northallerton, EN
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Led by poet, writer and gardener Rosie Miles with the Holy Rood Community. It is a condition of being human that we must all deal with multiple losses in our lives. There are many events in our lives – some ‘chosen’, some which happen to us – which face us with stark and often life-changing encounters with loss. One of the hardest losses to bear can be the loss of the self we had imagined that we would or could be. We will gently explore some of the losses in our lives, using poetry, which has an entire genre devoted to loss and grief: the elegy. We will explore some of elegy’s characteristics and look at a number of twentieth and twenty-first-century poems that articulate some of the many nuances and complexities of loss. There will be guided opportunities to write your own poems if you wish, as well as free time, relaxing spaces and home-cooked food.Please email [email protected] for more information or to book.
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Where is it happening?
Centre For Health & Pastoral Care, Holy Rood House, 10 Sowerby Road,, YO7 1HX Thirsk, United Kingdom, 10 Sowerby Road, Thirsk, YO7 1HX, United Kingdom, NorthallertonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
