Individual Residencies
2021 | Giovanna MacKenna
During my residency with The Museum of Loss and Renewal I worked to complete my first poetry collection, which is drawn from writing created over the last five years.
While engaging with my familial ties to the area, my time in Collemacchia was being used to further investigate my poems’ themes of family / depression / grief / nature / remembrance.
The space offered allowed me to write, edit, and to explore new ways of working with individual words and extracts from the poems, to draw out the connections between them and thereby create a cohesive path for the reader to follow.
Additionally, the residency gave me the invaluable opportunity to work on site with The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing, on creating the final form of my book How the Heart can Falter, which was published in June 2022.