DYCP EXAMPLE OF WORK
BY HAYLEY FRANCES
FOR CEREMONIAL LIVE POETRY
Recording
of book launch
This is an audio recording provided by The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire of the book launch for Administer the Laughing Gas, featured at Birmingham Literature Festival.
The performance was a live grief tending with soundscape, singing bowls, poetry from the collection and story telling.
In The Garden
poetry Collection
Created during residency at
Birmingham Women’s and Childrens Hospital.
IN THE GARDEN POEMS - READ HERE
WORKSHOP FACILITATION
EXAMPLES
Workshop plans and guides I’ve created.
This is just a sample.
GROUNDING THROUGH POETRY
Download fileGATES OF GRIEF POETRY WORKSHOP
Download fileTHE LOSS COMPANION POETRY THERAPY GUIDE
Online Viewing
PUBLISHED ARTICLES on therapeutic Poetry
LAPIDUS INTERNATIONAL
WRITING FOR WELLBEING ORGANISATION
The Right Words
This article reflects on the origins and impact of The Right Words, a therapeutic poetry project born from personal loss, exploring how poetry can offer language for grief, create spaces of collective care, and plant the seeds for wider healing practice.
The gifts of Arts Council England lie in their ability to seed work that matters; enabling projects like The Right Words to grow from personal need into collective healing, from a single grief into spaces where language, care, and creativity can meet others in theirs.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
MSLEXIA MAGAZINE
ADMINISTER THE LAUGHING GAS
VERVE POETRY PRESS 24
"Inventive, vivid, dreamlike yet unflinching and full to burst with startling images and achingly beautiful language. This is a book that invites new ways of seeing grief, loss, trauma, motherhood and the body with candour, vulnerability, personality and hope. An important and compelling work on the complex journey of survival."
- Cecilia Knapp.
"This is how grief becomes a stained glass window: beautiful, reflective, imagistic and somehow holy. Gorgeous and terrifying. Read it."
- Joelle Taylor
Hayley Frances' debut collection Administer the Laughing Gas, VERVE Poetry Press, is an an example of grief in translation. Each poem is an unfiltered documentation of a bereaved mothers survival, presenting ethereal realisations of birth trauma, grief, body autonomy, and ritual.
This collection is the beginning of an awakening that presents the reality of loss through poems that powerfully translate a mother's emotional strife alongside her lived experience.
