Friday, November 28, 2014

25 Edge Hill Poets: Hazel Mutch

Comma

 

This page     flies    flies     tilts

                                                     noun  drops   drift

                                                          verbs   wing

inwards    in sight

                a bright rush    a brushing

                                           touch               a pause,

                                                        effect

                                                                      cause

 affecting   thorax  down  

                             shivering        between

                                                     overlap

                                               and symmetry

                                                      syntax    

                                                             

                                                        stop

 

make sense

of dancing            over nothing     

                                                         but colours

 

 

This page   falls     

                             falls 

                                             lies

                                                            lines    turn

                                                            into time

kept   and cared about

 

 
I completed the Creative Writing MA in 2011 with distinction, and am currently training in Poetry Therapy with IAPT.  Writing poetry is part of my life practice and so my intention is to write consciously, experiencing and observing myself and the world around me, including in the act of writing. This is also the motivation behind my therapy poetry practice; to create the conditions in which poetry and writing can be used to gain insights which can bring freedom from conditioned thinking.

I continue to explore notions of how a poem’s existence parallels human existence, as I endeavour to fully experience both.

 Details of the Edge Hill MA here.