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Shiver & Sparkle - Fireworks
1960,
Shiver & Sparkle - Fireworks
Shiver & Sparkle - Fireworks
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39842
Title
Shiver & Sparkle - Fireworks
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.
'SHIVER & SPARKLE'
'THE EXPLOSION
JUMPS
AS IT LIGHTS UP THE SKY
A BRIGHT
SHIVER
OF COLOUR BENEATH
WHOOSH
POP
WHIZZ BANG
THE EVENING'S THEATRE
CONDUCTED
BY A SPARKLER IN HAND
WARM TATTIES AND
STICKY APPLES
HELD ABOVE
WORN WELLY BOOTS
WONDER-FILLED FACES
HIDE BEHIND
DAMP CAGOULE HOODS
WATCHING FLAMES
FLICKER AND DANCE
TO FAWKES
AND HIS PLOT
REMEMBER THE FIFTH
HOW COULD YOU NOT'
By Tom Cleeland
Image: Selection of fireworks 1960s
Date
1960
Location
Museum of Childhood
26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.
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26 Children's Winters
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