tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406925524977670641.post2089752949648356637..comments2024-01-30T16:59:10.060+00:00Comments on Pascale Petit's Blog: Cover art of The Treekeeper's TalePascale Petithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03496315815638953200noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406925524977670641.post-6862214299666737932009-09-22T20:51:08.047+01:002009-09-22T20:51:08.047+01:00I love this sculpture, its so haunting and mesmeri...I love this sculpture, its so haunting and mesmerising. I like your thoughts about created worlds and alternative realities too.Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406925524977670641.post-41517787553330149092009-08-31T18:05:22.785+01:002009-08-31T18:05:22.785+01:00Hi Avril,
Thanks for your encouraging remarks, gla...Hi Avril,<br />Thanks for your encouraging remarks, glad you enjoyed the poems and images. I love that analogy of the cover being like roots in the soil. I may do an all day Tate Modern class at some point next year. But I also do workshops elsewhere. There's a course in south of France next May, a Starting to Write Arvon at The Hurst, and a Ty Newydd next August. Dates are on my website http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk I'm also doing a workshop at the Aldeburgh festival and this will be using modern art to make poems. So perhaps we'll meet one day. <br /><br />It's good to work with advanced poets and I do but I also enjoy working with poets at the beginning or middle of their writing. Good luck with your work.Pascale Petithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496315815638953200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406925524977670641.post-87515040462433789272009-08-31T00:52:30.697+01:002009-08-31T00:52:30.697+01:00Hello Pascale
I have just discovered your site an...Hello Pascale<br /><br />I have just discovered your site and spent a long time today enjoying the amazing combination of poetry and art. When I looked at the cover image for The Treekeeper's Tale, which I am now very much looking forward to reading, I saw a crown of thorns, emotional pain, inward resistance, distance. It also made me think of the way some people or events can inhabit your mind and work their way in, like roots in the soil, difficult to dislodge.<br /><br />If only I lived in or near London and was able to attend one of your courses at the Tate - (perhaps sometime you will take pity on those of us who live further afield and offer a weekend)But I find it encouraging anyway that a poet of your reputation welcomes beginners as so many serious workshops seem to be for more advanced poets. I am thinking now I must visit the Tate - perhaps with my daughter who is currently at the RCA - and try for myself.Thank you for the inspiration<br /><br />AvrilAvrilhttp://www.avriljoy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406925524977670641.post-35715707364367179782009-08-01T22:17:02.759+01:002009-08-01T22:17:02.759+01:00Hi Alison,
Thanks for your response, and liking &...Hi Alison,<br /><br />Thanks for your response, and liking 'Blue Foal Dreaming', and reading my book. I usually don't know what I'm going to say when I write these posts about my work, they are an exploration and I hardly edit them, so glad you found a resonance. They are afterthoughts as I tend not to analyse what my poems are about when I'm writing. What matters when I write a poem is that it feels true and the images are physically well formed.<br /><br />Good luck with your own adventures in poems.<br />PxPascale Petithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03496315815638953200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7406925524977670641.post-75816702786427667892009-08-01T21:26:08.375+01:002009-08-01T21:26:08.375+01:00Hello Pascale,
It's lovely to hear you talk a...Hello Pascale,<br /><br />It's lovely to hear you talk about your work like this. When you write, 'ultimately metaphor can become a realer world to me than one made of stuff', I feel a real resonance with my own feeling about writing a poem. I've just begun to dip into 'The Treekeeper's Tale' (yesterday actually) and I'm looking forward to getting to know the poems. <br /><br />'Blue Foal Dreaming' was breathtaking.<br /><br />In terms of travelling far away into myself, I think it's an essential part of living every ounce of life that can be lived -roaming imaginatively is more powerful for me than physically ranging about the globe. I'm learning to make fuller use of blurring the line between a waking world and a dream/daydreamed world to find all of my selves. <br /><br />Alison WhiteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com