It's been a while... I haven't written a poem since Beltaine. And, as the reader will attest, not a blog post either. Litha, or Summer Solstice, the Celtic season just passing is the Solar Energetic peak of the year, the time of greatest energy for accomplishment and productivity - getting things done and bringing things … Continue reading Being a Writer When Not Writing : Litha & Lammas
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Summer Offerings from Sally-Shakti Willow: Yogi Poet Witch
Sat 6 July ~ CACAO POETRY MANDALA at the Yoga Life Studio, Eastbourne Thurs 11 July ~ EXTRAORDINARY & EVERYDAY UTOPIAS at the University of Brighton Fri 12 July ~ BREATHING & MOVING FOR WELLBEING at the University of Westminster 17-21 July ~ POETRY MANDALA WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCES at Buddhafield Festival, Taunton Sat 27 July ~ PEACE DRUM … Continue reading Summer Offerings from Sally-Shakti Willow: Yogi Poet Witch
WRITING UTOPIA
Submissions are open until 11pm on 21 June and the anthology will be published in 2020.
Radical Doula
The anthology, which began as a moment of triumph and cautious celebration, now also feels like a moment of protest ~ with women's bodies and our rights to choose what we do with them coming under increasing attack.
ATHA: Out Now!
The poems collected in Atha use collage techniques to anchor into the reality of this moment. Refusing to avoid the challenges and political crises of our time, while navigating a deeper channel of the possibility of utopia that can be accessed even now.
bladderwrack crows
New water poem ~ writing with the artworks on display at the Vital Water Exhibition and the books in the Waterweek Library.
Vital Water Writing
Yesterday's Writing with Water: Embodying Writing workshop at Gallery North, Hailsham, for Waterweek was a huge success!
Swim the Sea Inside [Poem]
This poem is collaged from found text at the Waterweek 2019 Vital Water Exhibition.
[The Binnie Sisters at Birling Gap Summer Solstice 2003/ Sonnet]
This sonnet was written from notes taken during an encounter with Christine Binnie’s large ceramic pot, The Binnie Sisters at Birling Gap Summer Solstice 2003, at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; exhibited as part of Figure Study II, spring 2019.
‘Livingness enacted through a form’
In writing the dailiness of life, the reality releases the dream of perfection. In my own writing practice, I've returned to the ground of my everyday life - journalling with the daily reality of my material circumstances. I've found an excitement in exploring the brevity of the sonnet form, and the openness of its contemporary innovations, to make poetry from my world.
Sally-Shakti Willow 