New Year, New Wings
2019, when I had – in a very real sense – wings. A belated and brief round-up of last year (I know – it’s nearly February, but midwinter...
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CALEB PARKIN
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Jun 11, 20193 min read
Dissertation, Publication, Projectification
Ekphrasis for All! (See Max Literacy update below) (No, projectification is not a word – but I just needed to finish the ‘-ification’...
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Jun 7, 20182 min read
Weimar Win & More
A still from The Desktop Metaphor Some good newses to celebrate & projects to update! Firstly, the filmpoem by Helmie Stil of my piece...
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Sep 27, 20171 min read
Four In a Forest: A Bedtime Story
Earlier in September, I was invited by Knowle West Media Centre to write a ‘bedtime story for an artists’ at their Artist Hotel...
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Mar 3, 20171 min read
Wyldwood Write On Video
I’ve just finished facilitating four sessions, working with Wyldwood Arts – a group of 18-25 year olds from the Bristol Old Vic young...
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Sep 5, 20161 min read
Writing Between the Lines
“a transitory and changing constellation of percepts, hunger and muscular flexing” – a quote about the swallow, from Andrew Jeffrey‘s...
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Aug 25, 20161 min read
Growing Bolder Video
Here’s a short film made by me, about the excellent Growing Bolder project – funded by Bristol Ageing Better – and the performance we did...
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Jun 28, 20161 min read
Limericks
For my Off The Record WRITE OFF group today, we had a lovely time reading some Limericks and then having a go at writing our own…Here’s...
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Jun 17, 20161 min read
NOT TODAY
Last week in my group with Off The Record, we looked at Andrew McMillan’s poem ‘TODAY’ from his great collection Physical (which you...
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May 11, 20161 min read
WRITE OFF from June 7th
The next WRITE OFF sessions start Tuesday June 7th at Beatroots Cafe, Lower Park Row, 17.00 – 18.30, for six weeks. The young people who...
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Apr 13, 20161 min read
NaPoWriMo 4.12: Ways of Looking
Yes, it’s very much like this one. In haste, this morning… Yesterday, I ran a group with some young people in which we looked at Wallace...
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Apr 8, 20161 min read
NaPoWriMo 4.8: Operation
The skill game where you’re the doctor! A tritina, from yesterday’s prompt, and without an introduction… **NB Taken this one down as I...
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Feb 26, 20161 min read
Write Off (Spring)
A quick note to say my Write Off sessions will be starting again on Tuesday 1st March. The sessions are open to all young people from 15...
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Feb 2, 20161 min read
MOOCs & Lots of Learning
I’ve just started on a Future Learn course (a MOOC – Massive Online Open Course, I believe) – which is about Literature and Mental...
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Jan 20, 20161 min read
Write Off returns…
The group is for anyone aged 16-25 who feels their writing, wellbeing and creativity would benefit from taking part. It’s a small and...
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Nov 17, 20151 min read
Trunk Career
I like the idea of a ‘Portfolio Career’: something dainty, portable and dynamic… Less this… At the moment, though, I’m coining the term...
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Oct 19, 20151 min read
Write Off!
NEWS: I’ll be piloting a creative writing group for young people in partnership with Off The Record Bristol – starting on Tuesday 3rd...
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May 9, 20151 min read
Majority
Travelling uphill, my gears crunch. We forget how yesterday felt. The dog licks my hand, empathic, going from second to nothing,...
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Apr 20, 20151 min read
I Have Nothing To Say
Busy assignment writing, working and – alas – not having time to NaPoWriMo. But ‘this is just to say’ that: #johncage #nothing #POETRY
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Feb 22, 20152 min read
Rich Ambiguity (on Poetry Therapy)
Whichever way up you look at it (thanks to wordsmith.org for this lovely bit of black and white Ambiguity). Out of very little, quite...
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