Common Room

Welcome

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 10 November, 2021
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This is the space where we’ll host ‘Conversations’ around creativity and the Understory. These could be between members or with other commentators. And here we open with two Understory poems – perhaps in conversation with each other? Watch this space – and sign up to our Mailing List if you want email notifications – for more.

Lit From Within

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 4 October, 2024

Peter Kenny chats with Charlotte about his poems in the new Mariscat Sampler One, as together they probe ‘memory street’.

Writing About Others

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 29 August, 2024

Guest poet Matthew Paul visits the Understory. He shares a poem about painter Edward Burra (1905-1976), and explores with Charlotte why he wrote it.

A Legacy of Notebooks

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 16 August, 2024

Part of the artwork ‘What is a Person?’ by Simon Sonsino

Karin Koller and Charlotte chat about poetry and science and the marks we leave behind.

On Hiding and Unmasking

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 7 August, 2024

Emma Lara Jones shares a poem and chats with Charlotte about who we uncover when we write.

The Listening Landscape

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 23 July, 2024

photo by Heidi Beck

Linda Goulden chats to Charlotte and shares two poems.

Focussing on Memory

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 20 May, 2024

Eleanor Punter shares a poem and chats with Charlotte about working with memories.

Journalling through Grief

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 11 April, 2024

Pauline Sewards chats with Charlotte about how writing has helped her rest and process the intensity of losing her mum.

On Reclaiming Selves

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 2 March, 2024

John White chats to Charlotte about how writing can help us give voice to hidden parts of ourselves.

Crowded Silence

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 9 October, 2023

Sarah Barnsley chats with Kate Hendry and Charlotte Gann about their new Mariscat pamphlets.

A Door Opening

Post author By Charlotte Gann
Post date 27 July, 2023

Colin Dixon chats with Charlotte about the things we know versus the things we understand; the intuitive ‘coding’ of coherence, and the spaces between words.