Ann Kelley
Winner of the prestigious 2007 Costa Children's Book Award - The Bower Bird
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Publications
The Bower Bird (Luath Press, May 2007)
Because We Have Reached That Place – poems (Oversteps 2006)
The Burying Beetle, (a novel Luath Press 2005)
Sea Front, (photographs Truran 2005)
Paper Whites ( photographs and poems LME 2001)
Poetry Remedy (handbook of poetry workshops with patients, Patten Press )
Nine Lives (audio book of cat stories, Halsgrove)
Positions held
Hon. Teaching Fellow at University of Plymouth and Exeter, Peninsula Medical School, UK.
Poetry Remedy
I work with healthcare professionals and patients at Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Peninsula Medical School, teaching them to write poetry.
I have led poetry writing courses for healthcare professionals and medical students at London teaching hospitals
St. Bartholemews, Royal London, Royal Free, Whittington; University College. I have worked with healthcare professionals and stroke patients in Zimbabwe, and palliative care professionals at a hospice in Australia.
I presently run Special Study Units on writing poetry as part of the Medical Humanities Course for medical students at Peninsula Medical School.
Write by the Sea
I run creative writing courses in Cornwall, UK. Please go to 'Poetry Workshops' to learn more.
