Be More Poet

This is a short episode to finish the series. It starts with an opportunity for a beautiful pause and concludes by listening to the songs on the wind. Rick Rubin’s words from The Creative Act: A Way of Being – “The work reveals itself as you go.” – has been my companion text for how Be More Poet is evolving… And I am grateful to you for joining me here. BEAUTIFUL PAUSE A most beautiful pause, &nbs...

A short meander through the phases of internal change in the company of ten poems and a few words from Leonard Cohen. Here are links to the blog posts where each of the poems appears (including beautiful photographs from the valley). PAUSE Just Pause Pause in This Place Being Quiet SEE DIFFERENTLY Angles of Light Viewpoint The Gift of Seeing Slant RE-STORY The Song Coming to Rest The Long Arc Dawn...

Time to pause and reflect on who we are and what we are becoming through the lens of a poem because seeing differently grows a new story. Tracing the emerging threads of humanity that were evident in the poetic pauses for peace in the last episode, I continued to muse and wrote a new poem: AM I READY TO BE HUMAN? Am I ready to be human,   to embrace my multitudes and know that we are one, cho...

Nine months ago, I was drawn to start offering a weekly Pause for Peace in the face of the mounting violence around the world. This episode explores the power of the poetic in standing in such a place, helping us see with different eyes and enlarging our humanity. Excerpt from Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen A Midweek Pause for Peace: Join me in a pause for peace A...

Using a poem to explore wild hope and its outworking here in a little valley in South West Wales. WILD HOPE Untamed… Not packaged in little sachets you can buy at the chemist, nor order online like a quick fix for meaninglessness. Wild hope is free,  and costs everything. Just watch the birds, they don’t have plan B. You can read the poem in its original form on my blog: The invitation of wil...

Using two poems to explore ‘becoming’ as a practice that releases and sustains life. You can read the poems on my blog: Unfurling The warmth of becoming The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts captured behind-the-scenes for the creation of Antony Gormley’s Domain Field exhibition in 2003 on Google Arts & Culture Thanks for listening. Sue Heatherington ~ from a little valley in South West Wales...

A wonderful conversation crossing miles and landscapes from the flat Fens of Eastern England to the valleys of Wales, yet finding a place of rest. Will shares his journey with poetry and three poems that mark milestones of his soul’s travels. Will’s three poems are: Swallowed by a vast sky The darkness of memory Your beauty They can be found on his LinkTree page – The Will Johnson Journey - along...

Is there a better word than slow? Exploring words and how they shape the world we see and the life we live using a short poem: INVITATION TO LINGER Slowing down enough to notice the little signs of grace, spacious enough to become attentive, water curiosity and  delight in possibility, the unfolding of a more generous life. + Sue Heatherington Read the poem on my blog: Lingering with the Inte...

Exploring a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales with me, Sue Heatherington. In this episode, we use a poem I wrote earlier in March to explore our sense of the edge, what we might find there, and why we need travelling companions. Read the poem in my blog of 15th March 2024: Softly walking on the edge For more on Quiet Disruptors, including the manifesto, book, resourc...

Exploring a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales with me, Sue Heatherington. In this episode, I explore how the sense of place shapes what we see. In particular, the characteristics the valley shares with other pockets of temperate rainforest on the western flanks of Britain. How Spring emerges here is distinctive and speaks to the transitions in our lives, whether thro...

Exploring a different way of seeing in conversation with Chris Matthews. Chris has a way with words that expresses his deep love for the poetic, which he shares generously and graciously with others. Join us for a beautiful and thoughtful conversation around three of Chris’ poems, that I know will touch you. All three poems were written for the Presence Project , and each is captured in a full cha...

Exploring a different way of seeing with words that offer hope for tomorrow while being grounded in the realities of today, this poem, written during the pandemic, is both an Easter poem and one that marks thresholds. This first episode is also an introduction to our little valley in South West Wales and me, Sue Heatherington. The powerful short film There is an After… created by Andy Hunter for T...

Sue Heatherington invites you to join her to explore a different way of seeing from a little valley in South West Wales. Words make worlds, and poetry and the poetic are a means to awaken our senses to things we might not otherwise see. And that changes us... Pause. See differently. Re-story https://sueheatherington.com/be-more-poet/