Poetics of Place exhibition is a part of the Hertfordshire Year of Culture, focusing on six artists working and living in Hertfordshire. Artists Kirke Raava, Amanda Ralph, Fiona Curran, Dave Nelson, Imogen Welch, and Yva Jung with diverging visual languages shared an intrinsic interest in the process of reassembling experiences of place or memory. The works on show in this exhibition question Welch’s past life, and her sense of place and belonging. ‘Muffled Tableau’ presents replica components of the artist’s teenage bedroom clad in felt, whilst ‘Shoe Fossils’ are casts of the space inside the artist’s own shoes. The normally hidden internal surface textures are revealed, to capture and preserve lived moments and memories. Gilson, Étienne (1994). "Foreword to the 1964 edition". The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6473-3.

Places have been remarkably dependable sources of inspiration for poets. Poetic accounts of places imagined or real are to be found throughout the history of Western civilization – Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s poems about farms and farming, Dante’s Inferno, Wordsworth poems of the English Lake District and T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland. At least two recent books of poems are simply titled Place (one by Allen Fisher, and the other by Jorie Graham). Taking this family tradition of 'adding to' as a visual starting point, Raava began to experiment with objects connected to her family’s past. The subtle subtraction or alteration of the recognisable elements of the original objects – a fork handle or the clasp of a purse – invites an unexpected dialogue to develop between the artist and the audience. discussed by Aristotle in the Poetics as the shift of the tragic protagonist’s fortune from good to bad, which is essential to the plot of a tragedy. It is often an ironic twist, as in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex when a messenger brings Oedipus news about his parents that he thinks… Read More Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? As part of the Hertfordshire Year of Culture, this group exhibition focuses on works by six artists living and working in Hertfordshire. With varying visual languages, artists Fiona Curran, Yva Jung, Dave Nelson, Kirke Raava, Amanda Ralph and Imogen Welch all share an inherent interest in the process of moulding and re-shaping experiences of memory or place. Consisting of assemblages, textile works, painting, photography and installation, the exhibition showcases layered, meticulously constructed works that consider the undercurrents of value systems, social histories and image-making.Lexi Eikelboom: Art-Making as Spiritual Place-Making: A Search for Parallels between Art and Liturgy Bachelard also discusses psychoanalysis and the work of the psychiatrist Carl Jung. Comparing the psychoanalytic and phenomenological approaches to his subject matter, he sees merit in both, but finds the phenomenological approach preferable. [2] Publication history [ edit ] Neither Tintern Abbey nor the River Wye is mentioned except in the poem’s title, yet Wordsworth’s descriptions of “steep and lofty cliffs,” “plots of cottage ground,” “hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines/ of sportive wood run wild,” and “pastoral farms,” evoke the specific character of the Wye valley and make it recognizable even to those who may not be familiar with it. This poem, like many poems of place, is in other words, communicates intersubjectively; it is simultaneously about somewhere particular and has a widely shared resonance.

Tom Duggan: The Insufficiency of Secular-Minded Aesthetics in Understanding the Music of Sir James MacMillan Galvin, James, “The Poetry of Place: James Wright’s ‘The Secret of Light’ at https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/collection/poetry-and-placea literal interpretation of Aristotle’s Poetics, he argued that Nature was governed by reason and that it was the task of poets to imitate reason as it manifested itself in Nature. He also initiated a reform of the German theatre aimed on the one hand against the Baroque extravagance of… Read More

Sheers, Owen 2008 “Poetry and Place: some personal reflections” Geography, Vol 93 _Part 3 2008 accessed at http://www.owensheers.co.uk/pdf/geography.pdf Jeremy Richards describes this sort of sensibility as a “shifting sense of place.” He suggests that a classic poet could stroll through a garden, stumble past a church, or kneel in the grass and feel sated and grounded. But today, he asks, “where is the poet’s sense of place? Itinerant, polluted, untethered? Tweeted?” Good questions when so much seems to changing and on the move. Here is Shelley Kirk-Rudeen writing about changes in Zumwalt Prairie in eastern Oregon: Elizabeth Rainsford-McMahon: From Dwelling to Indwelling: Thomas Merton’s Experience of St Antonin Noble Val Stay at home. It is the message we have heard countless times during this unprecedented period. Home has always been the foundation of our daily lives but suddenly its importance has amplified. We have perhaps never been more in tune with our sense of place than now, in this current environment.

discussed by Aristotle in the Poetics as an essential part of the plot of a tragedy, although anagnorisis occurs in comedy, epic, and, at a later date, the novel as well. Anagnorisis usually involves revelation of the true identity of persons previously unknown, as when a father recognizes a stranger… Read More

Paul Murray: “Irish Protestant Literary Perspectives on Catholic Liturgy: Ethel Voynich's 'The Gadfly' (1897) and Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (1897)” Rosemary Williams: The Boat of Salvation, the Office of Lauds, and Resurrection: Liturgy on the Shores of Ante-Purgatory in Dante's Commedia Paglia, Camille (1993). Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017209-2.

bell hooks, a well-known poet and writer who grew up in a remote area of Appalachia about which she has written several books, says simply that her identity is firmly rooted in a place that is no longer whole. Poets of place, at least those who combine careful observation with imaginative insights, do not merely celebrate place. They recognize that all places offer comforts and challenges and that these are constantly shifting. Windfall: A Journal of Poetry of Place accessed at http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/poetryofplace.html