The Green Fuse: Writing Flowers with Pascale Petit:

How do poets and visual artists depict flowers? The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang made sky gardens from fireworks. Can we talk to a rose as Mei-mei Berssenbrugge does in her book Hello, the Roses? If a poet imagines the rose answering back, as Berssenbrugge and Jo Shapcott do in their sequences, what might it say? Van Gogh’s sunflowers seem to bloom forever, while Ai Weiwei filled Tate Modern’s turbine hall with fired sunflower seeds. Anselm Kiefer painted canvases with ‘mute’ meadows and Monet’s waterlilies look as if they have just burst from buds. What creature pollinates a giant waterlily in the Amazon? Does it help to imagine it as an abused woman, as the rainforest is rased? Does metaphor help us understand ephemeral and endangered blossoms as bees are disappearing? In this workshop we’ll journey through the floral kingdom, reading inspiring poems and looking at images of artworks to guide us into writing playful in-depth poems about flowers and their strange sex lives.Purchase Link

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