Cooking --and baking-- is another form of poiesis for sure! I think often in my life when my writing is particularly dry I get a huge creativity boost in cooking. And it's funny recently I've had very low interest in cooking, but a much greater bust of creativity in writing. So I think for me at least there's a kind of reciprocity there.
Lovely my friend and congratulations on such a wonderful accomplishment. I feel I need to up my efforts a bit on the poetry side of things as I am woefully negligent in my experience and understanding of the great poets.
I saw your recent note, and it looks like you are on your way to gathering up some interesting poetry. I will see what I have that you may be interested in. :-)
I admire your cake making and cake decorating talents very much. Of course you can include cakes in a poetry blog! Why ever not?
I live 20 miles east of Oxford in the UK. And I have visited the poet Robert Bridges' house at Boars Hill, Oxford. It is now a Carmelite Priory, where I organised a parish retreat last year. Bridges' library is now the chapel and his dining room the friars' refectory.
Hopkins, a convert, would have been delighted at this change of ownership. And he was brought into the Church when at Oxford by none other than Cardinal Newman (himself a poet too.)
Cooking --and baking-- is another form of poiesis for sure! I think often in my life when my writing is particularly dry I get a huge creativity boost in cooking. And it's funny recently I've had very low interest in cooking, but a much greater bust of creativity in writing. So I think for me at least there's a kind of reciprocity there.
Happy second anniversary! I had never heard of this poet—amazing that we wouldn’t know Gerard Manley Hopkins without him!
Lovely my friend and congratulations on such a wonderful accomplishment. I feel I need to up my efforts a bit on the poetry side of things as I am woefully negligent in my experience and understanding of the great poets.
I saw your recent note, and it looks like you are on your way to gathering up some interesting poetry. I will see what I have that you may be interested in. :-)
I admire your cake making and cake decorating talents very much. Of course you can include cakes in a poetry blog! Why ever not?
I live 20 miles east of Oxford in the UK. And I have visited the poet Robert Bridges' house at Boars Hill, Oxford. It is now a Carmelite Priory, where I organised a parish retreat last year. Bridges' library is now the chapel and his dining room the friars' refectory.
Hopkins, a convert, would have been delighted at this change of ownership. And he was brought into the Church when at Oxford by none other than Cardinal Newman (himself a poet too.)
Oh, I must visit that Priory! Fairly certain my passport is up-to-date. ;-) How wonderful that you were able to organize a parish retreat there.
Happy Anniversary! Your passion for poetry is infectious and your sweets are confectious!
Thank you so much! I hope can come to Frost this year. I am remaking the cake. Bob Crawford gave his blessing.