Overview

This travelogue of lived experiences of the natural world, before and during the pandemic, comprises memoir extracts, stories, poems and e-mails. It is presented in inter-related, reflective narratives, both linear and fragmented, together with references to literature, music, art and film. Association and flights of fancy are used to explore the journeys of the mind in response to the sensory stimulants of the natural world; stimulants which may take us further into the natural world, or may unlock the imagination to take us somewhere else. In JOURNEYS the road is made by walking. Destinations are often unknown and outcomes uncertain. Process is more significant than product and the book turns on the idea of a reflective bricolage rather than rational argument and conclusions. The writer inhabiting nature, music in nature, and music as an art form, sits next to the myths and legends of storied landscapes, conceits of the mouth and the scallop shell, and concepts such as the pilgrim and the eclipse. The watchword of JOURNEYS as it moves from A Dream of Islands to Elysian Lockdown is empathy.

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Author:   Philip Chambers
Publisher:   The Cloister House Press
Imprint:   The Cloister House Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.298kg
ISBN:  

9781913460457

ISBN 10:   1913460452
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   14 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Part One A Dream of Islands; Bocca Della Verita; Eclipse; Bardsey Pilgrim; Ultima Thule; Seven Days: Badia De Pollenca, Mallorca; Hebridean Holy Days; Carpe Diem; Days of Abundance on The Isle of Wight; Part Two Elysian Lockdown; Early Days; Herd Instinct; Feathered Friends, Frogs and Fish; Territorial Imperative: Avon Meadows, Pershore; The Bliss of Solitude: The Forest of Dean; Virginia; Ode to Joy: Hartlebury Common; Being There: The Clent Hills; Scribbly Jacks and Alouettes: Prestbury Hill, Cleeve Common and Cleeve Hill; Colours: The Purlieus of Grimley Gravel Pits; Caravaggio and the Brown Hairstreak: Grafton Wood; Landfill Thrill: Throckmorton; Solitary Sojourn: Upper Hollowfields Farm; From Lesser Stitchwort to Autumn Lady's Tresses: Hollybed Farm Meadows and Castlemorton Common; The Unmasked and the Masked: Sutton Park; Indian Summer; Into Autumn; A Reflective Bricolage; Notes; Acknowledgements

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The author, now retired, worked as a Primary school teacher and a Secondary school teacher of English and Drama, after which he spent a year at the Laban Art of Movement Studio, studying Dance. He then moved into Higher Education and taught Dance and Drama for twenty years before gaining a PhD in Teaching and Learning with New Technologies and running the Master's Programme at the University of Worcester for ten years. This centred on Creative Approaches to Research Methods and included the supervision of PhDs and Master's Dissertations.

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