Psychoanalytic Poetry Festival 2015: Memory and Memorialisation




Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts show

Summary: Five distinguished poets explore themes of memory and memorialisation in their work through talks, readings and conversations with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.Stephen WilsonRe-membering Isaac Rosenberg Deryn Rees-JonesRemembering and imagining: The Case of Helen ThomasHelen Thomas, the wife of the poet Edward Thomas, wrote two memoirs after her husband's death in 1917. Deryn Rees-Jones explores her own response to Helen's life, marriage and widowhood in discussion with Judith Palmer. There will also be a showing of the animation 'And You, Helen', made by the artist Charlotte Hodes to accompany Edward Thomas's poem, and the book of the same name by the artist and Deryn Rees-Jones, published by Seren Books.