Writing ~ Re-connecting
Writing ~ Re-connecting
Born in Evin is the title of Maryam Zaree’s documentary about her own life. After its premiere at the Berlin film festival, it merits wide distribution. The Prison Memoir of Nasrin Parvaz, One Woman’s Struggle in Iran, pub. Victorina Press describes…
“I just wrote to go home. It was a place to be where I felt I was safe. And so, I write to fix a reality.” Lucia Berlin articulates the impetus for many creative spirits, She lived in many places…
@irishembassyberlin is hosting Irish women writers Sara Baume, Audrey Mc Gee, Lisa Mc Inerney, Eimear Mc Bride, Julia Kelly, Louise O’Neill for St. Brigid’s day. I wish I was there in my second Heimat to hear them. Sara Baume is…
What does Brexit mean for my Ulster Heimat? Heimat? ‘In a sense it means home, the castle in a person’s heart, if you will …. but in truth there is no specific English translation,’ to quote a character in Patrick…
Heimat – the place where the language of being comes naturally and you can read the faces and gestures of the people around you. Can unpacking „home“ in the German word help with the sense of dislocation, aggravated for many…
Thanks Moya for bringing me „A quieting o the self“ in the chosen place with your collection of poems Out of the Ordinary.
Ballyheimat: Reflections on ’self‘ and ‚other‘ () has been published in the September e-zine. My essay sits with poetry, short story, visual images among reflections of ghostly and realistic relationships to people and place. Painful and abusive situations are balanced…
Rekinding the spirit of Jaya with appreciation of her perception of „generosity of spirit and fearlessness“ where „respect, power and reverence are reclaimed and rekindled.“ Thanks to metaceptive.net/remembering-JayaGraves for video.
Does anyone know how to ask for the lavatory using vocabulary learnt from a Wagner score? I’m in search of laughter from a Berlin visit.
Antz danced into my dreams last night unannouned and vanished in a split screen leaving only a strip of his eyes bright against black. Later my phone beeped his birthday. I relive the intensity of the personal as political with…