At the end of 2007 we launched our first poetry anthology The Craft Of Life.
The great thing about this collection is that it proves yet again that the worst that this world can do to us can be overcome once we know that it can. Only then can we stop destroying ourselves and start to build, to build on the solid foundation of our centre. One of our contributors in his first collection reminded us that the pathway into the darkness is the same as the pathway out. All we have to do is to change direction.Creativity connects us to the Cosmos, to ourselves and to each other. The famous line of Seamus Heaney: "we must rhyme to see (ourselves), to set the darkness echoing" speaks for us all.Writing begins with self discovery, commanding us to know ourselves, to commit to growth and development from whatever starting point we occupy, knowing with Bob Dylan "he who ain't busy bein' born is busy dyin". Everyone in creative writing at Lifecraft can also affirm with Kathleen Raine that "the work of the artist is to heal the soul".Writing in this group and others like it is no mere hobby but a matter of life and death very often, a strategy for survival and possible transformation, all the more remarkable when one considers what so many have come through already in terms of trauma, abuse, invasion and abandonment. Miraculously their writing allows them to laugh at themselves and their often tragic-comic life situations, listening to and supporting one another through crisis, bereavement, loss or tragedy.These writers know life as few people can, breaking through trials and tribulations, celebrating awareness and triumph in the midst of all. Long may they continue.
Foreword by Tom Sheerin
The great thing about this collection is that it proves yet again that the worst that this world can do to us can be overcome once we know that it can. Only then can we stop destroying ourselves and start to build, to build on the solid foundation of our centre. One of our contributors in his first collection reminded us that the pathway into the darkness is the same as the pathway out. All we have to do is to change direction.Creativity connects us to the Cosmos, to ourselves and to each other. The famous line of Seamus Heaney: "we must rhyme to see (ourselves), to set the darkness echoing" speaks for us all.Writing begins with self discovery, commanding us to know ourselves, to commit to growth and development from whatever starting point we occupy, knowing with Bob Dylan "he who ain't busy bein' born is busy dyin". Everyone in creative writing at Lifecraft can also affirm with Kathleen Raine that "the work of the artist is to heal the soul".Writing in this group and others like it is no mere hobby but a matter of life and death very often, a strategy for survival and possible transformation, all the more remarkable when one considers what so many have come through already in terms of trauma, abuse, invasion and abandonment. Miraculously their writing allows them to laugh at themselves and their often tragic-comic life situations, listening to and supporting one another through crisis, bereavement, loss or tragedy.These writers know life as few people can, breaking through trials and tribulations, celebrating awareness and triumph in the midst of all. Long may they continue.
Foreword by Tom Sheerin
Available from Lifecraft
For£5.50
£5.00 for members.
The Craft Of Life is also available direct from our online book shop http://stores.lulu.com/lifecraft
Or at many of the events that we are planning for the current year.
For£5.50
£5.00 for members.
The Craft Of Life is also available direct from our online book shop http://stores.lulu.com/lifecraft
Or at many of the events that we are planning for the current year.
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