– 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 the imminent rain. Mid summer vacillating between now and the ‘not yet.’ I hear the garden in its tumescent silence and sound. Time feels ‘out of […]
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 & between the surface of her question, there is an invisible architecture often supporting the surface of the poem, she commences, & I in response, drift in the enigmatic gaps of her wording to dwell on what it is to write of, to […]
“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 language grows from our own fractured ‘scapes,’ how landscapes divulge, sunder, determine the spaces we inhabit, how, as writers and figures in landscape, we can re articulate ‘landscape’ in order to engage in waves of thinking and writing about its role in the world, […]
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 https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/insidewriting And the house? in Nocturne by Carolyn Forché by Agnieszka Studzińska And the house? in Nocturne by Carolyn Forché
An extract from Anna Souter’s essay on my collaboration with Sandra Beccarelli’s work: “…Beccarelli’s work is similarly produced in the context of an ongoing working relationship with a living writer. Beccarelli’s close collaboration with poet Agnieszka Studzinska is a lively, open-ended dialogue, in which each shares intimate aspects of their craft with the other. Beccarelli, for instance, shares images from her sketchbooks or from the backs of her canvases, while Studzinska sends snapshots from her […]
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 photographs. My grandmother’s hand as it stirred her black tea. My children’s skin on my lips as they leave to walk to school. My house is the language […]
Delighted to be teaching again for the Poetry School in Jan 2020: Poetics of Space after Bachelard. https://poetryschool.com/courses/poetics-of-space-after-bachelard-international/
I had such a brilliant time, showcasing my re-write/translation/interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and hearing the re-writes of Moll Flanders by Martha Pailing and Dracula by Damian le Bass. Just love a commission! https://essexbookfestival.org.uk/rewriting-essex/
What is self & how do I write it? Colossal, tumescent questions hanging & waiting to drop. In their falling the splattered matter of their existence is what poetry picks up (poetry that I like to read & write anyway.) The splattered matter of self. What do I mean by this word self, which often gets kicked around like a football on a tired pitch. One dictionary definition writes this: self: […]
Delighted to be teaching this course at the @poetryschool in May 2019. https://poetryschool.com/courses/writing-self-in-poetry-international/
