Inspiration

The Line is part of a larger project I am working on, which will tell the story of the Holocaust through a musical. The Line uses song to signify Ruth's journey on the Kindertransport to Britain and the historical displacement of the Jews. The poem expresses humanity's vulnerability to indoctrination, manipulation, and propaganda and attempts to, like Ruth's art, reflect on the chaos and fragility of our existence. The narrative of the poem and song is traumatic. Still, Ruth's story is not all sad, and the piece needed to carry a solid thread of hope, and this is done with the song's chorus. The images reinforce the onscreen text and the song lyrics. They were carefully selected to evoke negative and positive emotions.

Biography

John is a creative who has written for the Nottingham Writer’s Hub and performed his Midlands-accented poetry and music at the Nottingham Poetry Festival, Metronome and the Nottingham Contemporary. He is currently an ambassador for the WRAP programme (Writing, Reading and Pleasure) at Nottingham Trent University, where he’s completing the final year of a Creative Writing degree.