By Julie Morgan

Last updated at 13:29, Thursday, 13 October 2011

A LAMPLUGH poet’s work is to feature in a male nude calendar to raise money for diabetes research.

Star poet: Gill Hands, pictured with some of her paintings at The Beacon’s Christmas show last year

Gill Hands’ poem will feature alongside a picture of a nude poet taken in the Lake District by a female photographer.

To provide inspiration for the shoot, the poet and photographer duo were given an individual poem on the theme of ‘the male muse’.

The calendar was dreamt up by Wild Women Press co-founder and poet Victoria Bennett after her son was diagnosed with type one diabetes.

Photographed in “places of literary inspiration across Cumbria’’ the calendar is published by Wild Women Press to raise funds for the work of JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund).

The calendar will be launched on World Diabetes Day on November 14 and is available to order now from www.wildwomenpress.com.

First published at 11:10, Thursday, 13 October 2011
Published by http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk