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Tag: Creativity

Guest blog post: Travelling without a visa, by Finuala Dowling

Travelling without a visa   It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Disobedience, Finuala Dowling, Jenny Joseph, Larkin, Poems, Poetry, Poets, This be the Verse, Trusting in the Process, Warning, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

The Creativity Challenge

Below is the text of a PowerPoint presentation that I am giving today at the Directors of Studies Conference 2015, at Port … More

Being Creative, Benjamin Zander, Creative Process, Creativity, creativity in education, creativity process, Creativity Theory, Education, Guy Claxton, Ken Robinson, Life Lessons, Personal Creativity, Rollo May, Seth Godin, Sir Ken Robinson, Teachers' views of creativity, Teaching Creativity, Trusting in the Process

Am I a poet?

A friend recently asked me if I was writing. I replied, as I always do, saying that it was going … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Life Lessons, National Poetry Day, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, putting a collection together, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

Pure distraction

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Don Paterson, Education, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Seamus Heaney, The Government of the Tongue, Trusting in the Process, Twitter

Ignore everyone, absorb everything

During the mad phase, when everything was a tweet or a share or a retweet, one of my favourite discoveries … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Change This Manifestos, Creativity, Damian Furniss, How to be Creative, Hugh MacLeod, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, Myra Schneider, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Twitter, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Nothing doing

Sporting occasions are bad. Or the Corbyn result, that was hard. I seem to remember (no one else does) a … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Catherine Fox, Creativity, Education, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Poets, Presence, Social Media, Twitter

Guest blog post: Whose life is it anyway? by John Foggin

  A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Carol Ann Duffy, Creativity, John Foggin, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Norman MacCaig, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, The World's Wife, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

This may not work

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Creativity and Risk, Jo Bell, Josephine Corcoran, Jupiter Artland, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Presence, Resistance, Risk, Seth Godin, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke, Social Media, Steven Pressfield, Tara Donovan, The Icarus Deception, This may not work, Twitter, Untitled (Plastic Cups)

Noticing again

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Keeping a notebook, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Notebooks, Presence, Social Media, Trusting in the Process, Twitter, Writing, Writing Process

Climbing up the walls

Or perhaps you’re waiting at the bus stop. You could text someone. But if you said ‘no’ to the text, … More

Adelia Prado, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Ilhan Berk, Leaving Twitter, mindfulness, On Twitter, Poets, Presence, Reading Poetry, Resistance, Simon Parke, Solitude, Steven Pressfield, The War of Art, Twitter, Twitter Addiction

It’s not about you, it’s me: on saying goodbye to Twitter

What I want is to – to be present. That’s what I’ve learned. I want to strive for presence, now, … More

Adrienne Rich, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Creative Process, Creativity, James Schuyler, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, Lymphoma, mindfulness, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Presence, Remission, Twitter, Writing, Writing Process

Influences: Alan Booth

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Alan Booth, Being Creative, Creativity, Education, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Process

Writing and silence

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Education, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poetry

The woman at the workshop

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Education, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poetry in Education, poetry workshops, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

Thingless

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

After the thing

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Silence, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Publish more!

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Are you writing?

I am taking a break from writing brand new blog posts over the summer. Instead of posting new work I … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

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