Geography for Poets
"Poets make the best topographers" (W.G.Hoskins, 1955: The Making of the English Landscape)
In his collection of short stories "Winesburg, Ohio" (1922), Sherwood Anderson describes one particular story as: "...worth a book in itself. Sympathetically set forth it would tap many strange, beautiful qualities in obscure men. It is a job for a poet." The same is true of Geography. It is a job for a poet, and done well it can help us to discover interesting and important things within ourselves, as well as in our world. Everything in this world is connected to everything else: that's where the poetry comes from; just as the science does... |
The trees starry with goodwill From "The Axion Esti" by Odysseus Elytis They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, From "Too many names" by Pablo Neruda We shall not cease from exploration From "Little Gidding" by T.S.Eliot |