Tag: Ray Fisher

Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?

Published April 1, 2011 by Jo Jordan

Standing where you are – what do you see?

Psychologists angst quite a bit over whether there is an essential us or whether we are creature of circumsances.

Of course we are both and neither.

Without a deep respect for the place where we find ourselves, how can we see the world? Irish Yorkshireman poet David Whyte calls the place we stand “hallowed ground”.

Birmingham poet, Roy Fisher is functional as any Brummy should be.

The universe, we define

As a place capable of having

A place like this for its centre.

There’s no shame/ in letting the world pivot

On your own patch. That’s all a centre is for. (p.13).

Roy Fisher

( I must buy his book but I haven’t discovered the title yet.)

Our lives but a poetry of place?

Published March 31, 2011 by Jo Jordan

“Birmingham’s what I think with. It’s not made for that sort of job, but it’s what they gave me.”
Roy Fisher

Is it true that thinking about the objects around us helps us see opportunity and choice?

Are our lives poetry of ‘our place’? Even if we not conciously writing its poems?

What thoughts did I have today because of my surroundings?
Did I even notice my surroundings?

Would I think differently if I rearranged my surroundings and made them more attention?

Would I enjoy thinking that way?

Tag: Ray Fisher

Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?

Standing where you are – what do you see?

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Our lives but a poetry of place?

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