Creatives' Club Writes Collaborative Poetry with Rebecca Cullen

Inside the Secret Garden

Snails hide from hunting frogs.
Bees buzz in an endless maze,
through sparks of lavender,
and thyme, and fresh green grass.
The sun shines,
brightly, on good company,
on those who really know me.
And standing on the outside,
you’re welcome to the secret,
if you choose to keep it,
if you dare to step
inside.

In the Big House

In
a big room,
in the big house,
the very big house in the city,
creativity lives, breathes and builds.

Creativity at home may take the shape of a woman rocking in a corner,
of smallness, or a fear of ugliness.
And then again, creativity stretches its long limbs towards high ceilings,
lingers in the space and finds a place to sit,
looking to the future, inhabiting its contemporary.

Dr Becky Cullen is a poet and Midlands3Cities postdoctoral Cultural Economy Engagement Fellow at NTU, working in collaboration with Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature. Her Poetry Pulse project is scoping ways to harness digital technology to capture, showcase and curate the work of Nottingham’s 1000 poets. Becky has taught on several undergraduate modules at NTU. She also delivers training in creative presentations and creative writing for business.

Her poems have been published in various journals and in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII (2018). Her award-winning poetry pamphlet Majid Sits in a Tree and Sings is published by Smith|Doorstep.