REST IS RESISTANCE
When I gave a presentation to the Open University a few weeks ago, I spoke about my practice of drawing water as one of deliberately slowing down in order to inhabit time with more awareness and presence. One of the questions I was asked in the (unrecorded) Q&A...
An Incitement To Joy
Ross Gay’s “Inciting Joy” has been keeping me company these past few days. A poet, Gay’s prose is playful, looping, forking into asides and lengthy footnotes, inviting you to meander alongside. As title the suggests, he explores ‘incitements’ or moments when a kind...
The Poetry of Amazement
It’s not often that I sit down with a book of poetry and find myself so drawn into its world that I read it in long, deep draughts, like a novel. But this is the effect that my first encounter with the work of Canadian poet Don Domanski had on me. These are poems of...
Drawing Water
I was invited recently to make a presentation for a conference on "Eco-Creativity" organised by the Open University. I offered an invitation to pay attention to the water around and within you in all its familiarity and strangeness, to become enchanted by...