Conversations in Writing

Our ‘All Over Everywhereness’

Posted by on Apr 7, 2016 in Conversations in Writing

            Our ‘All Over Everywhereness’   What about drawing and craft making while eating breakfast, using the food processor as an oven, singing about random stuff at the top of your voice, wiping your sticky hands on your brother’s t-shirt, rolling around in delight on the kitchen floor while sticking your feet in the pantry, clearing a surface with one sweep of an arm, wailing because the dress you want is in the washing machine and five minutes later laughing about burnt toast…? Seriously what about it?   This is a regular morning in the...

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It Cajoles Me… A Prologue

Posted by on Feb 23, 2016 in Conversations in Writing

It Cajoles Me… A Prologue   I hit play on a favourite track, close my eyes, breathe… let the sensation of pleasure spread through the whole of me, and move a little. Then I raise my hands to the keys and begin to write, and what I write first, is this. I wonder at this only for a moment as I quickly realise that everything I do has a kinesthetic flavour. It’s both the kinesthetic intelligence inherent in our cells, and the fact that this is an entirely undervalued and underemphasised intelligence in our society, that fuels my work. It was there driving the creation of The...

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