Tag: writing
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Back to the future.
When I was younger you wouldn’t catch me dead reading anything other than Science Fiction. Arthur C Clarke, Frank Herbert, Issac Asimov, Larry Niven, Philip K Dick, these were my abductors to off-world adventure and escape. Even when I was supposed to be reading assigned books for English class (like Heart of Darkness or Puberty […]
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Why I write.
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in a world that often appears black and white. I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things […]
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The poetry of radishes.
So, what’s my all-time favourite poem? I have many favourite poets. Garry Snyder, Mary Oliver, Rumi. Many more. I like poets who abandon the rules of poetry. Here is the performance poet (or spoken word artist as he calls himself) Buddy Wakefield in action. He shows us the electric power of poetry brought to life: […]