Session 7 - Creative Writing with Daniela Nunnari

Today we welcome to the project a rising star in the Creative Writing world, Daniela Nunnari. Dani will be helping us to craft some creative narratives which can inspire or form part of the performances to be filmed.

Dani specialises in poetry and to start things off has created a piece based on the BLOG entries so far. She wanted to empathise what it was like to be a young carer without writing something that the crew felt was off the mark or misunderstanding. Therefore, she chose to write about Cat's exploding canvas which is one of the images which struck her most from the BLOG.


Each morning you hand me your heart.
You sigh with relief as I take it.
Released, you close your eyes to sleep.
You drift away.
I carry it all day.

Wrapped in a handkerchief I bought you for Christmas.
Tied with a ribbon you used to plait into my hair.
I carry it everywhere.

Your heart is heavy,
heavy as a hand grenade.
It throbs and it wheezes,
it murmurs and beats,
and beats,
like a song that is stuck on repeat.
And I get no peace.

It drowns out all noises,
all voices, all choices.
and it takes all I have to hold on.

But I do.
And each night I return it to you.

And I smile and I sing
and watch trashy tv
and I talk to my friends
and do things just for me
and I sleep and I dream
of a time I'll be free.

Each morning you hand me your heart,
heavy as a hand grenade,
and I carry it,
and my love is the pin.

Daniela Nunnari