Paul Hawkins is one of the most interesting poets working in the UK and really a fundamental part of the Poem Brut project www.poembrut.com For the new year of poem brut I wanted to offer some commissions with those who had become deeply involved in the work - exploring method and mess, the mind and brain - but to make the nature of those commissions completely as open as the content of them. Paul, characteristically, used his to create a new set of workshops with Bristol based mental health organisation Second Step. It makes me proud that this is part of poem brut, and has happened just because it should, and not with some overt gesture. Paul is authentic is he is anything, and that’s why I admire him.

You can find out more about these workshops and second step here https://www.second-step.co.uk/wellbeing-college-blogs-poems-without-words-celebrating-vibrancy-scribbling-scrawling/ and attached is a work made by one of the people, Allison, who attended Paul’s sessions.