Tag: landscape

Cultural Histories at Kingston double feature: That’s not how I remember it

???????????????????????????????This Thursday, 18th December, I will be speaking with Dr Alison Baverstock, as part of a Cultural Histories at Kingston University double feature, titled: “That’s not how I remember it.”

Dr Baverstock, associate professor of publishing at Kingston University, will be speaking about her extensive research into self-publishing and in particular the processes of externalising the internal, and how this impacts on both writer and those offering associated publishing services. She has recently written an ebook for The Guardian about how to negotiate highly personal writing projects – and what to do with them once you have finished. Should they be shared or left in a drawer for others to discover in future?

I will be speaking the effect that place has on us; in particular how where you grow up affects you at the time – and impacts on your life in future. I will also talk about the writing of memoirs in relation to place and the memories we hold, and offer a scholarly analysis of how other writers have approached and handled these issues.

Full details of the event here.

The Art of Walking at Museum in the Park, Stroud

I am delighted to have work included in this show by Walking the Land, which opens tomorrow at The Museum in the Park, in Stroud, and is part of the Laurie Lee Centenery Celebrations.

My work-in-progress for the new map, ‘Over The Fields’, including new poems and photographs, will be on display alongside other art created from walking.

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with Poetry, Art and Landscape, an exhibition showing a collection of previously unseen drawings and paintings by celebrated poet and writer Laurie Lee.

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The catalogue is here.

Poems at Occupy St Paul’s

I went to Occupy St Paul’s a couple of weeks ago with some copies of my poetry map, Amniotic City, and the people in the Information Tent at the time were keen to have a couple of the poems as posters. So I went back this week and stuck up two poems, ‘Feed the Birds’ which is in the shape of the dome of St Paul’s, and ‘The Imposible Circle-Squared Mile’ which is a comment on the foundations of the Square Mile and its business practices. These were written before any of the Occupy protests began but address some of the same issues and were written about this very part of London, so it seems fitting to have them in that spot.