Finding Your Place: Writing Yourself into Your Landscape
Writing prompts PLUS news of a new writing group - The Dusk Chorus
First: News of a New Writing Group
The Dawn Chorus returns on the 11th March, this time accompanied by a new writing group - The Dusk Chorus. You can find details about the Dawn Chorus, and the Dusk Chorus by clicking these buttons:
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Finding Your Place: Writing Yourself into Your Landscape
These writing prompts are based on a previous personal course I ran entitled ‘The Landscape of You. It’s all about exploring your place in the story of the landscape, and finding ways to write that.
In her brilliant essay, in the Nine Arches Press essay collection Why I Write Poetry, poet Jean Sprackland; known for her creative non-fiction and poetry of place, writes:
Poetry…is absolutely portable, and can be completely immaterial. There’s no studio, no darkroom, no kiln, and no case full of expensive lenses to maintain, clean, repair and generally fiddle around with when the creative work is in abeyance.
She’s writing in the context of process, of finding a way to find the poems. We carry poems inside us. Before we ever sit down to write a poem, the poem is being formed by our experiences and our surroundings. The landscape we live in; the wild or rural or cities and suburbia form a huge part of our personal background. Landscape feeds into us, is part of us. We are connected to the world around us, and the world around us is connected to us. As poets we carry this around with us too, and it inevitably feeds into our poems. But what if we want to specifically write about the landscape we exist in, and how it exists within us?