In November 2007 I stumbled across the poetry and published letters of Gertrud Kolmar and found myself deeply drawn into her world, her life and work. Her capacity to evoke exceptionally vivid, awakened experience through the alchemical, imaginal wonders of poetry shone out to me with palpable force. To acknowledge my growing body of work inspired by her writings, The Welten Project has now been adopted as an inclusive title for all works inspired by, re-imagining or setting poems from Welten, the 17-poem cycle by Gertrud Kolmar.
