Daniel Scott – live streamed – “Poetry as a way”
Poet Daniel Scott has discovered that, as a declaration of experience, insight and understanding, poetry is more than story telling or capturing images. Poetry offers a way to speak for others and of oneself from “the heart of compassion”. Writing poems is an integrative process that is, for him, spiritual. In his homily Daniel will reflect on the place of writing poems in his life highlighting how the writing process has helped him meet difficulty and accept what comes, especially in the midst of change and crisis. Maybe poetry can speak for you?
Daniel is a retried academic who worked at The School of Child & Youth care at UVic. His research area was the inner and spiritual lives of children and youth with work on girls’ diaries and suicide foci in his last years there. He has been writing poetry for about 4 decades, has published 5 books, 3 chapbooks, had several plays produced and has another chapbook and an edited anthology in press. He is the current Artistic Director of the Planet Earth Poetry read series. He has 5 children and 6 grandchildren and one on the way.
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