roselle
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- The Solitary Walker
- 6°WEST
- A Journey into the Land
- A Year with Rilke
- America's WildRead
- an open field
- Andy Brown POETRY
- Angel wings and Herb tea
- Black Coffee & A Glass of Water
- bookbird
- Brigit Strawbridge
- Devon Dark Mountain
- Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman
- el camino del corazon
- Footless Crow
- keeper of wild places
- Mandy Pannett's blog
- Moonlight and Hares
- Musings from Gelli Fach
- Prehistoric Archaeology Blog
- Snow Branches
- Soundings
- Storing Magic
- Symbolic Living
- Tairis
- THE ALCHEMIST'S KITCHEN
- The Archdruid Report
- The Edge Columns
- The Exploding Moorhen
- The Fern Law of Faery
- The Gleam of Light on Water
- The Owl and the Pussy Cat
- Treshnish Farm
- Westcountry School of Myth and Story
- What Is Sustainable
- Wisdom of Astrology
- Writing the wild
- ZenDotStudio
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | writer, painter, workshop facilitator |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Cornish poet, author and painter. I read Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge, and followed that with a training in Transpersonal Psychology. Under the Fire in the Head and The Wild Ways banners I lead an international holistic creative writing and ecopsychology/bardic programme ranging from outdoor workshops, through intensive poetry, to novel-writing based on the psychology of myth. All my work is influenced by the wild land, by Zen mindfulness, engaged Buddhist thinking, and Celtic shamanic metaphysics, as well as Transpersonal Psychology. I am passionate about the environment, and about creativity and consciousness. As a poet, I've been involved in a number of interdisciplinary and often land-based arts projects, collaborating with artists, musicians, dancers and sculptors. Recent books are Imago, a novel, and Bardo (prose poems), All the Missing Names of Love (poems).My long Dartmoor poem, River Suite, appeared, with stunning water photography by Vikky Minette, in May 2013. New novel, The Burning Ground, came out October 2013. |
| Favorite Movies | So many! But off the top of my head: Il Postino, Dead Poets Society, Fisher King, The English Patient, The Way, Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources, Three Colours trilogy, Chocolat, Four Weddings and a Funeral; oh yes of course When Harry Met Sally; numerous documentaries, of which Winged Migration has to be a favourite. Also Koyaanisqatsi, and Powaqqatsi – very beautiful, very difficult films |
| Favorite Music | Early & baroque music; gypsy/tango/klezmer; world (african, cuban, celtic); reggae & dub; chansonniers; French street music (esp La Rue Ketanou); St Germain; Gotan Project; Van the Man and his Bobness; Grateful Dead; Manu Chao; later Joan Baez; Moishe's Bagel; Kangaroo Moon; Bagas Degol; 'the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death' (Jackie Leven); Robin Williamson; Garbarek, Glass, Part, Keith Jarrett; folkrockprotest; cello, violin, accordion, harp, piano, djembe, flute |
| Favorite Books | See 'and so to books' blog! Plus about 3000 others |