When does the act of ‘seeing’ (as understood in the visual thinking routine of ‘See, Think, Wonder’, used to initiate both analytical and creative inquiry in learners of all ages) become the point of entry into the reflective (think), and, of exit into the critical or creative (wonder) wormhole, where multiple possibilities of interpretation, await
‘I have a dark and dreadful secret: I write poetry’ (Fry, 2006, foreword) I was listening to the opening three minutes of the ‘foreword’ to Stephen Fry’s Ode Less travelled: Unlocking the poet within, on Audible, during my Sunday morning walk, when these first words brought me to a ‘literary’ halt. Was writing poetry my
While all of the poems, On sad afternoons, were written in private, for no one in particular but myself, they were arranged and edited in their present form for publication for a wider readership. And in that process of selection and organisation, I as the editor, sought to weave a metacognitive bubble over what I
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