The Canadian poet Patrick Woodcock has added his support to the Memories project. Earlier this year his seventh book of poetry – Always Die Before Your Mother – was published worldwide, dedicated to his mother Susan Woodcock who died of cancer in 2007.

You’ll be able to read Woodcock’s poem Swimming with Pink Dolphins and my Dead Mother when Memories is released, and also see artists’ visual responses to this work. It’s a moving and vivid piece of poetry and we expect the accompanying artwork to be equally emotive.

You can pick up Woodcock’s book on Amazon. The poet is currently teaching English in the Kurdish region of Iraq.