van 't Klooster, A., 2018.

Still Born

The Still Born book was first published in 2018 with the help of Arts Council funding. It aims to lift some of the taboos on the delicate subject matter of stillbirth, speaking through art and poetry about the emotions that arise in the days, months and years that follow a stillbirth. Adinda's body of work on the theme of stillbirth was used as a starting point to invite ekphrastic poetry from. Eight poets were selected from a national open call, a process jointly managed with New Writing North. Selected poets Roger Bloor, Christine Bousfield, Jennie Farley, Rebecca Goss, Sarah James, Claire Potter and Wendy Pratt were asked to produce a poem in response to a single artwork each and Karen McCarthy Woolf responded to three artworks. The book further includes a text by stillbirth specialist and obstetrician Alexander Heazell of Tommy's Stillbirth Research Centre at the University of Manchester and a text by Adinda van 't Klooster explaining the individual artworks.