“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
(T. S. Eliot, lines 239-242, Four Quartets)
work in progress
more regular postings of current projects, often described and photographed during the making process…
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found…
Alexander Pope, English poet, 1717
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morning, light
these fractured clays – a poem-film
A poem-film to do with environment, history and place.
Images are of sections of land, after excavation, at this site-specific project in Suffolk, where
the remains of a previously unknown medieval settlement were found. This hundred acre site, formally farmland, is now associated with offshore wind developments off the Suffolk coast.
Note: ‘Clays’, in religious and literary contexts, represent the mortal human body as distinct from the immortal spirit.
…to be a poet
Daily writing prompt
What’s a promise you made to yourself that you’ve actually kept?
after time
is there no time?
like the present…
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Celtic Bouzouki
I had an Indian Sitar for many years, travelled with it in the late 60’s through Chile, South America, later it was damaged by the police in Ecuador. In the 90’s I took it with me to France where the gourd became damaged for the second and final time. I had to let it go. I discovered my beautiful Celtic Bouzouki in Cornwall, UK and on the anniversary of Ravi Shankar’s birthday, improvised this short “evening raga”. She is still with me to this day, now in Walmer, Deal, Kent, where she features in some of our short poem-films x
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Art, Music, and Poetry: The Artist Book Film
Artist Book: short film featuring work by 42 participating artists, with music and poems by Philip Bennetta
develop possibility
develop possibility for adventure within ourselves, at our own pace…
you tie tomatoes
emotion
emotion; the possibility of finding or being touched by something on the tip of being
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