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Nature Writing Workshop with Northumberland National Park
Get ready to immerse yourself in the Great Outdoors on this special day when everyone is encouraged to think about nature.
Bring the #OutdoorsIndoors on International Earth Day
Northumberland National Park’s writer in residence Dr. Sheree Mack loves immersing herself in nature. She has learnt to destress through nature and found inspiration for her creative writing in the great outdoors.
Join Sheree and National Park Ecologist Gill Thompson on International Earth Day to discover how to get the most out of your personal nature experience.
Date And Time
Thu, 22 April 2021
11:00 – 14:30 BST
From some hints on where and when to find hidden natural delights to practical tips on capturing your own precious memories through journaling, this online workshop will prepare you for a meaningful connection with nature.
Joining details will be sent ahead of the event.
This is the first event I’ll be facilitating in relation to my writer in residence with the Black Nature in Residence Project.
October Readings
October turned out to be a great month of reading after I set myself the Sealy challenge; of reading one book of poetry a day for a month.
Here’a the books I got through:
- Other Poetry, no.23 – anthology of poetry
- Writing for my life – Nancy Levin
- The World Don’t End – Charles Simic
- Our Dead Behind Us – Audre Lorde
- Butcher’s Dog 12 – anthology of poetry
- Butcher’s Dog 13 – anthology of poetry
- What to look for in Autumn – Ladybird Book
- Facts about the moon – Dori Anne Laux
- Undersong – Audre Lorde
- Postcolonial Love Poem – Natalie Diaz
- What the Water Gave Me – Pascal Petit
- It Ends With Her – Brianna Labuskes
- I am an Island – Tasmin Galidas
- The Crossroads of Should and Must – Elle Lune
- Danger on Peaks – Gary Synder
- The Goddess Oracle – Amy Sophia and Mara Rashinsky
- Blue Front – Martha Collins
- The Autumn House – Alison May
- The Winter House – Alison May
connection
the snow is pristine
the water is cold
the silence is rippling
she does not come here to talk. she does not come here to appease. she is here to connect. to the Earth. to the Sea. to Herself. so she does not take kindly to the wide vacant stares that question her presence. she uses the solid rock of the mountains and the copper grasses peaking through the cracks as a special welcome just for her.
Sea film
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
Streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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