Artist In Residence

Writing Transformation: Part Two

Writing Transformation: Part Two

This is part two of a two-part reflection on Rebecca’s Writing Transformation workshop. You can find part one here. If this inspires you, Rebecca will be running the workshop again – with a new part added – for St Andrews students, on Friday 10th November, 5-8pm at St...

Writing Transformation: Part One

Writing Transformation: Part One

‘A Map of Consciousness’ – Ram Dass LSR Foundation “You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.” - Ram Dass This two-part post reflects on Rebecca’s Writing...

Spring buds, unfinished poems

Spring buds, unfinished poems

It’s Spring. Where I live in Fife, I’ve loved seeing the snowdrops appear – every year, a welcome portent of things to come. So tiny and bright, the first signs of life returning. Usually, when they first appear in late January or early February, there’s more weather...

Beginnings + Endings

Beginnings + Endings

I was asked to write something for the University’s online annual Burns Night on 25 January, responding to Burns’ views on environmental issues. You can watch my filmed reading again here, with my notes below – on how I approached the invitation, and of course, the poem that came out of it.

Solar poems for winter

Solar poems for winter

I’ve been developing a new sequence that I’m calling ‘solar panel’ poems. They are / will be semi-concrete (visual) in style, each taking the same square-ish (solar panel) form. The sequence may end up being called Attractors.

National Poetry Day: Rules of the Moon

National Poetry Day: Rules of the Moon

A lot of my thinking continues to be around our relationships to change, safety, un/certainty and risk in the face of climate emergency; and where these terms become highly subjective. Also around memory, imagination and time, as we sit on a hinge looking both forward...

Hello, and how to be (not a) jellyfish

Hello, and how to be (not a) jellyfish

I’m Rebecca Sharp, a writer and interdisciplinary artist, and the CEE’s inaugural Artist in Residence. I hail from Glasgow; lived over ten years in Liverpool before moving into north Fife in 2014. My core practice is as a writer – plays since 2001, and poetry, some...

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