MALVERN Museum has recently appointed its first poet-in-residence, Myfanwy Fox.
Myfanwy is a Malvern-based poet who, in a previous existence, worked in biology at Cambridge and Stanford, California.
She is involved with many local groups including Ledbury Poetry Festival, is a regular at many West Midlands spoken-word events and performs as Fox Pops in Malvern’s irregular ConFab Cabaret.
Since her appointment, she has written several poems inspired by items on display in the museum in Abbey Road, and the poems themselves are on display in the reception area.
She said: "What I'm hoping to do is bring another aspect to the museum exhibits, make people look at them in a slightly different way, and make them think about poetry in a slightly different way as well. Poetry offers a way for people to see things afresh.
"I also hope to be holding workshops for people to come and write poems based on the museum's artifacts, or their own artifacts."
The museum will be closing its doors for the winter at the end of October, to reopen next March, though in an innovation for this year, it will open on Saturdays during November.
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