On the Holding of Spaces for Essaying Into
Co-authored with Peta Murray, Andy Jackson, Tina Stefanou and Khalid Warsame
Cordite Poetry Review
2021
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It’s a putting oneself into a space of deliberate uncertainty. Stepping into the unknown. A practicing in that space. Training. It’s about thinking provisionally. Speaking small. Not for all.
It’s about languaging. Being attentive to words, to meaning. To the meaning that can be smuggled in however unwittingly.
It’s about taking seriously – which might have nothing whatsoever to do with being serious.
Read the full essay here.