Spiritual Landscapes course
Spirituality, landscape & the environment. Is there anything more vital to write about today?
Join Richard Skinner for a day of reading, writing and exploring these themes in your own work. This short course will examine the spirituality of walking, our deep connections with place and the practice of writing to deepen personal and poetic engagement with the natural world. For his first session, entitled ‘Walking & Writing’, Richard will show and discuss his poems written while walking in The Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and on the Pennine Way. Using these poems and others as models, you will then explore the spirituality of walking in your own work. A great deal of Richard’s work is written in situ rather than en route and is concerned with capturing a sense of place. For his second session, entitled ‘A Sense of Place’, Richard will show and discuss his poems written while staying in The Lake District and Cornwall. Using these poems and others as models, as well as visual prompts, you will then explore how to capture a sense of place in your own work. You will leave this course feeling inspired and encouraged to express more fully your own spirituality while walking. No previous knowledge or experience necessary.
Richard Skinner is a walker and a writer, often at the same time. He has climbed the Wainwrights in the Lakes, the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye and Mont Blanc. In 2016, he switched to long distance walking. So far, he has completed more than 20 long distance walks in the UK, including St Hilda’s Way, St Alkelda’s Way and the Augustine Camino. Richard has published seven books of poems. He is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy and runs poetry courses for the Arvon Foundation.
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