Respiration as Inspiration
Professor David Fuller explores the ways in which breath inspires the writing and performance of poetry and literature.
Professor David Fuller explores the ways in which breath inspires the writing and performance of poetry and literature.
David Fuller explores how a new view of poetic structure based on the breath emerged in the mid-20th Century.
Dr William Wootten, who spoke at our last Life of Breath poetry reading event, writes: The rhythm of breathing, like…
Highlights and interviews from an evening of poetry and song to provoke deeper thought and discussion around the lived experience…
Elsa Hammond is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, working on breath and death in the poetry of…
Jenny Chamarette (writer, curator and film scholar and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London), and Anna…
Kate Binnie writes about the recent Medicine Unboxed conference (November 18th-20th, Cheltenham). Next year’s conference is on the theme of wonder…
Kate Binnie, yoga teacher and music therapist, shares a memory of a hospice patient: Paula wakes early every day and…
In honour of the Glastonbury Festival, Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes a post with an Arthurian flavour (see also ‘Arthur’s…
The Life of Breath team and guests gathered at Royal Fort House on 14 May 2015 to launch the project…
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