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SUMMARY:Inhabiting the Isolarion: A Psychogeography Poetry Workshop
DESCRIPTION:‘Fifteenth-century mapmakers developed the concept of the ‘isolarion’: the type of map that describes specific areas in detail\, but does not provide a clarifying overview of how these places are related to one another.’ \n\n\n\nRobert MacFarlane\, The Wild Places \n\n\n\n‘Experience shapes us\, randomness shapes us\, the stars and weather\, our own accommodations and rebellions\, above all\, the social order around us.’ \n\n\n\nAdrienne Rich \n\n\n\nWhere do you come from?Where do you inhabit? \n\n\n\nWhere do you belong? \n\n\n\nUsing the concept of the isolarion\, and practices and techniques from psycho-geography\, participants will create a short suite of poems exploring significant places\, relationships\, communities\, cultures\, and experiences in their lives\, to explore and trace threads running from the past to present to future. Can we find the through line?  \n\n\n\nThe first half of the workshop will be dedicated to using materials and techniques from psycho-geography to map significant places\, experiences\, and relationships from our lives\, in order to create our own isolarions. This will be a sensory\, intuitive exercise\, designed to dig deep into the unconscious\, using not only language but image\, colour\, texture\, sound\, gesture\, and instinct.The second half of the workshop will be dedicated to a more reflective analysis of the isolarions and creating a short suite of poems bridging one experience and another.Participants will be asked to bring a few personal materials (fabric\, postcards\, photos\, etc.). \n\n\n\nRachel McCrum is a poet\, performer\, editor\, and curator.  Originally from Northern Ireland\, she lived in Edinburgh\, Scotland between 2010 and 2016\, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet in Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her debut collection\, The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate\, was translated by Jonathan Lamy and published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in Fall 2020 and was a finalist for the QWF’s Prix de traduction de la Fondation in 2022. She is currently working on a new spoken word show on stepmothers. Rachel is the vocalist for noise-poetry group Pigs&Wolves.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/inhabiting-the-isolarion-a-psychogeography-poetry-workshop/
LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:QWF Workshops,Workshops
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