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The Common with Phil Smith
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We start the new year in the company of acclaimed walking artist, Phil Smith discussing his collection of poetry "The Common".
• Mind the Fields (a companion to Mind the Gaps)
Mind the Fields offers a bridge between the embattled camps of empirical and experiential knowing; of science and noetics (here meaning inward, intuitive or participatory knowing); of Newtonian and Quantum; of rational and a-rational; of the Old Order and the New Age. It respects the discipline of evidence and the need for intellectual rigour, while refusing to
What if the universe is stitched together with absences? What if our deepest realities – personal, political, cosmic – are not shaped by grand ideas or all-encompassing ‘explanations’, but by the tiny, unremarked
gaps between them?
In this kaleidoscopic essay, Phil Smith covers some unlikely terrain: from the quantum unevenness of the cosmos to the haunted ruins of mines and the fragile misadventures of lost mariners.
He rejects the siren call of big, smooth answers and plunges into the turbulent space where anomalies, coincidences and disturbances matter.
Phil gathers stories, observations and practices from the disturbed edges of
culture, ecology and everyday life –inviting us to attend to absences, to find hope in
the vacuum and to experiment with living differently in the leaks and loopholes of
existence.
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