NEW works featuring the words of local writers have gone on display at the Dean Heritage Centre.

The temporary exhibition has been created by John Slater who has been artist in residence at the centre in Soudley since April.

The texts that have inspired the exhibition come from works in the Forest of Dean Writers’ Collection and stories contributed by the local community.

The latest installation ‘Forest’, uses texts by Winifred Foley, Leonard Clark, FW Harvey and Joyce Latham, suspending them from branches in front of paintings and drawings made by John, to draw visitors’ attention to the writers, and how they experi enced their environment.

There is also an audio recording of the writers reading from their own work, and includes Keith Morgan’s poem in Forest dialect, ‘Varest Ship’.

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