'Runwell' poem in One Beautiful World poetry reading

A new poem inspired by St Mary's Runwell is to be published by Amethyst Review on 22 May 2023. The poem entitled 'Runwell' is among poems to be read by Jonathan Evens as part of a joint poetry reading with Tim Harrold at St Catherine's Wickford on Saturday 20 May, beginning at 4.00 pm. The poem, which describes the church and its surroundings, also summarises its history, while taking the nearby Running Well (from which Runwell's name may derive) as its refrain.

Jonathan will also be including in the reading a poem about Julian of Norwich, which is also published this month as part of an anthology of poems (All Shall Be Well) celebrating the 650th anniversary of Julian's shewings. This poem is based on a large painting 'The Revelations of Julian of Norwich' by Australian artist Alan Oldfield which is to be found at the Belsey Bridge Conference Centre in Ditchingham, Norfolk.

Jonathan, the Team Rector of Wickford and Runwell, is a creative writer whose poems and stories have been published by Amethyst Review, InternationalTimes and Stride Magazine. Tim Harrold is a poet who creates images of profound challenge and change, of pause and process, of chrysalis and catalyst. His most recent publication is ‘Verses versus Viruses’. 

The poetry reading comes at the end of an Art Trail day in which art to be seen includes works by Val Anthony, William Butterfield, Enid Chadwick, Antony Corbin, Christine Daniels, David Folley, David Garrard and Julia Glover at St Andrew’s, St Catherine’s and St Mary’s churches, plus a photographic exhibition at the Salvation Army, Jackie Burns’ Space Art at St Andrew’s, Tim Harrold’s assemblages at St Catherine’s and paintings by Pam Jones at St Mary’s.

  

Tim Harrold's art exhibition 'The Art of the Diorama' will be able to be seen as part of the 'One Beautiful World' Arts Festival, Friday 12 – Friday 26 May, St Catherine’s Church, 120 Southend Road, Wickford SS11 8EB. 

Tim will be exhibiting a selection of dioramas constructed over the past decade, some of which have never been seen publicly before, and some entirely new ones. He see these miniature ‘worlds in boxes’ as visual parables, lost objects with forgotten stories found and reimagined into new tales of meaning and significance.

Tim is an artist who works with bric à brac, flotsam and jetsam, the discarded or misplaced along the journey of life. He finds lost objects and gives them new meaning through his three-dimensional assemblage style which brings together found and sourced elements into visual parables.