Resources

Books that have informed both my creative life and my inner one. Click on each image to read more.

Poetry & Writing

A small selection of books that have shaped how I write, read and think about language.

A small selection of books that have shaped how I think about the inner life, attention and what it means to be human.

'And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.'

‘Late Fragment’ by Raymond Carver
To be alive: not just the carcass / But the spark. That's crudely put, but… / If we're not supposed to dance / Why all this music?

From ‘Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved’ by Gregory Orr
'Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.'

Howard Thurman
'Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.'

James Tate
'The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.'

-Francis Weller
'Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.'

Rumi