contents - writing the bright moment

Right now, I'm immersed in three things: responding to an assignment from a participant on my poetry course; working on some creative non-fiction for the next book; and rather more urgently tweaking the material for my tonight's talk in Totnes (I'm speaking on imaginal, feeling nature, and shamanic/liminal modes of consciousness – so nothing too demanding to squeeze into a half hour...!).

So without further ado, here's the promised Contents list for the reprinted book, in the hopes that if you don't already have it you'd like to buy it...  All the unattributed chapters are my own. (Apologies if the spacing's weird – it was yesterday – copying from Word doesn't work, but going via an intermediate text document loses all the formatting. The joys of technology.)

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Writing The Bright Moment

Contents

Introduction – Living the Writing Life

Part 1 Mapping the Territory

Eau de Vie

Telling Tales

Writing From Life 1

Writing From Life 2

Assume Zebra

Standing in the River

Tales of Wonder

Shifting Arenas (by Andy Brown)

Catching the Wave

Commitment

Car Mechanics (by David Keefe)

Begin Anywhere, Begin Somewhere

Going to the Coal Face (by Andie Lewenstein)

Beachcombing – bits of blue plastic

‘Spoon’– How Do You Spell It? (by Paul Matthews)

Feather Slippers

One Foot in Front of the Other

The Writer & Threshold Consciousness (by Stephen Parr)

Sauntering

Silence

The Still Small Voices

Tongues of the Earth (by Jeremy Thres)

Dark Matter

Perspective, Perception and Preconceptions

‘Only Connect’

Thinking Wild

The Sudden Glint (by Chris North)

Eternally Opposite, Eternally Connected

The Power of Dream

The Creative Process

Altered States

Wild Thinking

Part 2 The Practice of Poetry

Fractured Light (by Kenneth Steven)

Wrestling with a God: Making Poems

Whole Fragments

What I Look For in Poetry

The Unsettling of Language (by Rupert Loydell)

Lakes and Rivers

The Pearl from the Gravel (by Kenneth Steven)

Late September (by Mario Petrucci)

The Poet’s Career: a short gallop at full speed, or the flight of a bird (by Keith Jafrate)

Haiku, Tanka and Haibun

This Bright Moment: the Practice of Haiku

Joy and Grief – One Brush (by Ken Jones)

Tanka

Haibun

Where Boundaries Blur: The Prose Poem

Part 3 Storymaking

Heart of Story

Out of the Labyrinth

Once Upon a Time

Creating the Universe

Themes

Plots

Characters

The Alchemy of Objects (by Jane Spiro)

Stranger Than Fiction

Beginnings, Middles & Ends

Part 4 Writing For Life

The Night Sea Journey (by Rose Flint)

Writing for Wellbeing

A Candle Against the Dark

A Tree Full of Birds

Footnotes & References

Notes on Contributors