When we first caught up in preparation for this digital residency — even before we got to mind mapping ideas — we discovered that we had both lived in Essex at different times in our lives.
In fact, we happened to have seen the same obscure student film. Admittedly we both had fairly sketchy memories of it but as both of us often took inspiration from cinema, it felt like a synchronicity we couldn’t pass up. For this first instalment, we decided to write a poem each responding to said student film (a short called House of Cards (we think)).
Farrow Dreamsong #2 – Gregory Kearns
Our next instalment will be a transcription of our discussion responding to each other’s pieces, considering our approaches to poetry, cinema, and how memories work.
Gregory Kearns is a poet and broadcaster based in Liverpool. He was highly commended in the Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2025, along with winning the Northern Writers Award in 2022. His work has been published in Introduction X, Bath Magg, and The Mersey Review. Gregory hosts The Poems We Made Along The Way, interviews that explore community, friendship and poetry. Previous guests include Sarah Howe, Mark Pajak, Hera Lindsay Bird and many more. Episodes can be found wherever good podcasts can be heard.
Jade Prince hails from Essex, England and currently resides in Leeds. Her work has been published in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Poetry & Audience, and PEN Transmissions amongst others, and she is a Writing Squad alum. Her time is currently dedicated to working on her first prose coming of age project.
