Summer of Sustainability - Poetry & Sustainability Workshop

Poetry and Sustainability

Join OCA tutor Liz Cashdan for this workshop on sustaining our own practice and how we can use the features of reading and writing poetry to promote sustainability in the world today more generally.

Our own practice: 

1. We will look at the different ways poets sustain their practice from ideas about keeping notebooks and journals to discovering what happens when you actually start writing.  We will look at the suggestions made by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi the American psychologist who analysed what occurs when people write.

2. We  will analyse the word “flow” to see if it is a helpful concept when discussing the act of writing and look at the concepts of planning and exploring.    (https://www.oca.ac.uk/weareoca/creative-writing/flow-not-flow-risks-getting-carried-away/)

3. Also to be discussed will be some of the ideas of  Frank Smith from his book on writing, (Writing and the Writer.  Routledge 1983)  (https://www.oca.ac.uk/weareoca/creative-writing/point-reflective-commentary/)