Taking a line for a walk...
Following from the success of our 2022 StAnza workshop, "Taking Books for a Walk", we ask, how might we take a book we’re reading, the film or the art that we see, for a walk… letting the book or the art work talk to, even change, how we think about ourselves and the world? Might we be able to stage these encounters creatively and imaginatively?
The essays below are such adventures.
Undone
Sometimes a word troubles me and won’t leave me alone; it’s as if it has a life of its own. Try as I might I can’t quite pin the emotional resonance of the word to the context of its utterance. Most of the time, though not always, it’s part of a quotation I have half remembered or read. I sound out possible sentences, even replay different scenarios in my mind but the substance which gave flesh to the word eludes me, and because of this pure frustration mounts…. It started with my reading Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man…