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Following the success of last week's post, featuring the work of Sophie Ford, I've got another treat this week with another of my second year students. Julie Upton took part in my Geopoetics workshop for the University of Wolverhampton, and produced the following inverted cinquain. Always one to think outside the box, this up and coming creative loves to play with forms and traditions, bringing her unique and rebellious sense of humour and outlook into her writing. In this poem she works with pagan beliefs and traditions of solstice fusing that with the sensory experiences of the natural realm.
Litha Celebratory dance and drink Soft grass underfoot Warm. Sweet Midsummer. JULIE UPTON It gives me great pleasure today to publish a poem that came out of a recent masterclass I ran for the Creative and Professional Writing's Writing Week at the University of Wolverhampton. I presented some of the ideas I've been exploring over the last eighteen months as poet in residence for the Black Country Geological Society; the cutting-edge ideas of Kenneth White, Don McKay and the Geopoeticists, and the awe-inspiring places that make up the UNESCO Black Country Geopark.
Sophie Ford is one of our second year students, and has already impressed with her talent for poetic expression. She's a tremendous budding talent with an astute eye for detail and slick grasp of formal craft. Watch this space, says I, but let's let this deep-diving free form poem do the talking. Interlocking weaves of webs of leaves of family trees, Connected by heart, by blood, by feel, by mud. Wiggling through cracks in stone through rubble and bone, Struggled throughout, within, we keep going out and back in. Home. Sophie Ford |
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