Connecting conversations

Connecting Conversations emerged as part of the Islington based Rowan Arts Project when Ruth Robinson, then Director of the charity and a Psychoanalyst, brought together practitioners from the world of psychoanalysis with creatives working in the Arts. The events aim to make connections between individuals, organisations, disciplines and ideas.

In 2013, under the auspices of Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy and in union with The Bridge Foundation, Lorraine Vivian met with Ruth to explore the possibility that we might host similar talks in the South West. The first Bristol based Connecting Conversation was held in May 2014.

Connecting Conversations EP01: Wendy Cope, Poet, in conversation with psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz

03/05/2021 28/04/2021

A recording of the audience question and answer session which followed the Connecting Conversations event, at which poet Wendy Cope discussed her work with psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz.

Wendy Cope is a contemporary English poet whose collections include Serious Concerns (1992); If I Don’t Know (2001), shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979–2006 (2008); Family Values (2011); Christmas Poems (2017), a collection of new and previously published Christmas-themed work; and Anecdotal Evidence (2018). She is the author of the prose collection Life, Love and the Archers (2015) and two books for children, Twiddling Your Thumbs (1988) and The River Girl (1991), and the editor of numerous anthologies, including, The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories (1999).