Creativity: a provocation

Anthony WilsonApril 18, 2017April 17, 2017Being Creative, Creativity, Education

You can download the PowerPoint of my talk at Mount Kelly College, on 18 April 2017, here: Creativity_a provocation_Mount Kelly College_April 2017_Anthony Wilson.

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I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems, based on the blog of the same name, is available from Bloodaxe Books. Love for Now, my memoir of cancer, is published by Impress Books. Deck Shoes, a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife, my fifth book of poems, are available now from Impress Books and Worple Press. My current research project is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library. View all posts by Anthony Wilson

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Mark Fiddes says:

April 18, 2017 at 7:13 am

Hi Anthony, some great insights here and I love the cross-disciplinary out-take. It reminds me of the outlook of Miroslav Holub, himself a poet and immunologist. “Creativity is the source of waves across of broad surface of culture – new, unique, surprising, elegant waves.” (from Maxwell’s Demon). Surely one of the biggest institutional barriers to creativity in the UK is how our education system still points people towards either science or the arts without recognising that it is often the interaction of the two that sparks genuine innovation?

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janetmcclean says:

April 18, 2017 at 3:13 pm

Thank you for introducing me to Simon Parke whose counsel I have value for some months now and whose quotes sit well in your useful presentation.

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astridalben says:

April 18, 2017 at 6:09 pm

Thank you for this! Encouraging to see how many women you mention 😉

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