Poetry Commission for Artful Scribe

I was really excited to have won this commission on the theme of Women in Science. I chose to write about Dr Elsie Inglis who took a team of nurses to care for the sick on the Eastern Front during WW1. My Aunt Susannah was one of those nurses.

It was a marvellous evening led by Susmita Bhattacharya. I performed alongside three other poets and a raft of wonderful dancers and musicians. Pictures below are of my aunt by her tent, Dr Inglis and the nurses and one of me reading at the event.