The background: the House has been successful in securing funding from the Arts Council for a collaborative programme of arts activities which includes a series of creative writing workshops. Here, Ben Cassidy, who is attending the programme, describes his experience of the second session. For some of the poems which emerged from this session, click here. For some, poetry is the unmentionable term of literature, and can conjure up painful recollections of school days, and the awkward experiences of being...
