Home safely and thinking about next year already ...

Here's hoping everyone has made it safely and comfortably home. Like Jane, I'm already formulating ideas for a Bristol panel next year. On the way home I started reading Ron Pelias's beautiful book, 'Leaning: A poetics of personal relations' (Left Coast Press). In the chapter Walking and Writing with Laurel Richardson, he writes:

Crystalisations: A poetic plea

In postmodern mixed genre texts, the writers do not triangulate; they crystallise. There are far more than 'three sides' by which to approach the world (Richardson, 1997: 92)

Again

Tell it again

and again,

tell it so that all

hear and all

are heard,

tell it so many times

that we know

there is always more

to tell,

tell it so that light

pours through.

a prismatic light,

a rainbow

of desire.

Tell it

again

to be fair.

Tell it enough

times to learn who

we are.

Tell it again

so we know

what to do.

Tell it

again and again

straight as

arrows

one after another

from all directions

crisscrossing,

shooting

for

the heart

(Pelias, 2011: 80-81)

I've reviewed the photos I took (mostly during the Stellar Patti Panel) and am attaching a few more images here.