Rusty!

Well, have had a bit of a hiatus from working, as you can see! You could say I had taken a little break from reality for the past couple of weeks; been busy festival-ing, and London-ing and lots of other things that equal 'not much work done at all'! However, am back now, if feeling a little bit rusty, but ready and raring to go. So the poems, 'Bearded Pigs' and 'Richmond Park' are composed from notes that I took when out and about visiting Dad in London. This trip coincided well with where I was at in my course work- I was to record a landscape scene, and observe a live animal; so both of these were achievable in London. BP came from notes taken at a trip to London Zoo (very handy!) and RP is pretty obvious really- a nice stroll in one of London's loveliest open spaces. I am surprised that I chose these notes to make a landscape poem actually, as I rather thought I would enjoy describing a more urban scene, but in the end, my notes on Richmond Park just drew me in creatively more than any of my other descriptive passages. Am pleased with how they have turned out, I didn't actually spend that long working on them- only a couple of redrafts and tweaking. I don't know if this is because I am getting better at poetry writing or just that it was the way in which I structured my original notes, but whatever it is, I'm not complaining!