On Monday 31st March I was invited to give talk to Thornbury Camera Club

It was a lovely evening and I was made very welcome and everyone appeared to enjoy themselves and felt great to have some feedback on my poems that were inspired by images such as photography. I enjoyed looking at photographs taken by some of the club members, what a lovely variety there was to see too.  

This is the write up about the evening that was posted on the clubs website.

"Much as we may like pigeon holes, the arts do not exist in isolation.  Shakespeare`s plays have inspired poetry, painting and operas. Photography can inspire too. 

For this meeting, the Thornbury Camera Club welcomed poet Lis Bull to present "Lissie`s Poems".   Lis was led to poetry to cope with a personal loss.  Words helped her overcome her loss and have inspired her not only to continue to write but to use poetry and the process of writing to help other people who are going through emotional periods in their lives.

She described how poetry can provide an outlet for emotions. It can also create a distancing within which emotions such as anger can be better understood.

Much of Lissie's poetry has been inspired by photographs. Cats seem a particular favourite, though landscape of Orkney also provided a trigger for her words.  The club provided several images in advance to which she reacted. Lissie’s poems, made in response to the images from the club led to interesting discussions between members of the club.

Shakespeare inspired operas. In the interests of forgetting pigeon holes, perhaps, one day, one of our photographs will inspire Lis to write an opera too."