At Home in Hauntology

Here in the garden, I notice change flickering and looping in the invisible lapse of time between my footsteps, bird feet, the silent beats of butterfly wings and the movements of flora. In my passing, I de-head the odd flower, I note a small bud in apprehension and...

Dialogues in Dwelling

By what invisible architecture is the poem developed? asks Barbara Guest in her seminal, short poetic statement, called Invisible Architecture? By what invisible architecture is the house turned into poetry? I hear myself answering as I read beyond &...

How In Shadowed Landscapes?

“This is the world in profile, medieval, the landscape gathered up into the face…”  Jorie Graham [‘Harvest for Bergson’ in Hybrid of Plants and Ghosts] This workshop will explore how the notion of landscape haunts our presence, how landscape and...

And the House?

Click on the links to read my critical/creative essay entitled: ‘And the House? In Nocturne’ by Carolyn Forché which was published by Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts as part of a new digital poetry festival, called INSIDE WRITING...

The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space after Bachelard [an introduction] “A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.” My house is sometimes a chair I sit on in a different country, a tent, a beach, the woods I return to in...