Ruth Adams
I grew up in a little village called Shelley near to the Mast of Emley Moor. With it's lovely winding countryside, it was wonderful for feeding my imaginative, creative nature. I loved having mini adventures with my friends, exploring the environment and wildlife of the beanfields, woods, and hills between neighbouring villages, even friend's gardens too!
My first poetry experiences were creating rhyming couplets throughout stories at school, poetry read by teachers and reading Pam Ayres' poetry, (one of my mum's favourite poets) found when delving into my parents' brimming bookshelves. I've always loved reading and studying literature.At sixth form English, I studied Hamlet and Keats. Shakespeare was poetry to me, I felt a burning desire to translate his language....so off to Canterbury I ventured to study my chosen craft of Theatre Studies. By my learning via my own growing life experiences and how writers of plays/literature evoke their chraracters' emotions, loving the theatrical production symbolism and expression. I felt a lightbulb flicked on to work by Keats and other poets.
I returned to West Yorkshire after my degree in 1999. I have been working at the university library at Huddersfield since 2000. I am part of a local theatre group, Huddersfield Thespians. You can even see my name on their website (production assistant area) http://huddersfieldthespians.co.uk/
I lead some theatre acting workshops with them and act, work backstage in their productions too. Backstage, I always love listening to the words performed. My final year of my degree, I specialised in radio production, which included writing part of a group soap, 'Love Lane', broadcast on CTFM, Canterbury's local commercial radio station. Huddersfield Literature Festival this year, something drew me to the poetry performance workshop....and heard and took part in theTalking Zebras open mic event. I enjoyed this immensely and this re-awakened in me my reading and sharing passion for literature again. So, discovering of Talking Zebras poetry and prose group is a definite delight. I hope to write more poetry very soon ....
My first poetry experiences were creating rhyming couplets throughout stories at school, poetry read by teachers and reading Pam Ayres' poetry, (one of my mum's favourite poets) found when delving into my parents' brimming bookshelves. I've always loved reading and studying literature.At sixth form English, I studied Hamlet and Keats. Shakespeare was poetry to me, I felt a burning desire to translate his language....so off to Canterbury I ventured to study my chosen craft of Theatre Studies. By my learning via my own growing life experiences and how writers of plays/literature evoke their chraracters' emotions, loving the theatrical production symbolism and expression. I felt a lightbulb flicked on to work by Keats and other poets.
I returned to West Yorkshire after my degree in 1999. I have been working at the university library at Huddersfield since 2000. I am part of a local theatre group, Huddersfield Thespians. You can even see my name on their website (production assistant area) http://huddersfieldthespians.co.uk/
I lead some theatre acting workshops with them and act, work backstage in their productions too. Backstage, I always love listening to the words performed. My final year of my degree, I specialised in radio production, which included writing part of a group soap, 'Love Lane', broadcast on CTFM, Canterbury's local commercial radio station. Huddersfield Literature Festival this year, something drew me to the poetry performance workshop....and heard and took part in theTalking Zebras open mic event. I enjoyed this immensely and this re-awakened in me my reading and sharing passion for literature again. So, discovering of Talking Zebras poetry and prose group is a definite delight. I hope to write more poetry very soon ....