‘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...
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...
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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.
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.
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...
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...
Award-winning poet and writer Rebecca Sharp will be taking up the position of Artist-in-Residence at the University of St Andrews’ Centre for Energy Ethics (CEE). The 18-month post will begin in September 2022.