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My trip to the conference and the Beyond the Boarders storytelling festival inspired the following short piece which I dedicate to everyone present this year.   [Picture from Redbubble.com]   Memories beside the sea The trees watched the people as they approached; but the people weren’t aware that the trees were watching. For time unmeasured the trees of the grove danced with the wind beside the sea. One day some people came. The trees didn’t understand why. The figures looked like small saplings to the trees. Saplings that pounded their roots on the ground but not in the earth; that drank water but not with their roots; that sang but not with the liquefied earth that the trees felt effortlessly flow through their trunks and branches. These saplings pounded the earth and drank water until they couldn’t walk, and sang until they couldn’t talk. And when the sun had set and risen three times the saplings, being uprooted, left for another place. The trees saw what...

This year the Anthropology of Storytelling panel invited creative contributions that explored the capacity of storytelling within anthropology and other disciplines. The conference allowed me to reflect and converse with others about how research can be expressed in other forms; and in doing so central ideas to the research become accessible to others in the form of fiction. The boundary between non-fiction and fiction blurs. For example, John Harries (University of Edinburgh) gave a vivid and lively presentation about a story of a man’s dog in Newfoundland. This story changed in his own renditions at different conferences over the years. Was this fiction or a recollection of events that were missing in his initial observation notes? It was a clever way to illustrate what becomes of stories told by others when they are retold over time. The story transforms. We also heard some lovely stories from reading of pieces to a storytelling performance... Amanda...

These are thoughts on a talk given by V Spike Peterson (University of Arizona) in Social Sciences 11 th June Warwick University I think that discussions of marriage are very topical at the moment given the media attention on same sex marriages, and the long overdue changes taking place. I'm not certain about the links Peterson draws between the state and marriage. She herself said she was taking a bird's eye view and there are many complex processes involved. Peterson comes from a psychologist turned international relations viewpoint. ‘Hold onto your hats!’ Peterson began. By the time it had ended I felt entertained and informed about something I knew little about before. I also felt like I had just crammed for an exam. There was a lot of history to cover about the change of marriage overtime since ancient Greece to the present which I can’t do justice to here. Peterson’s presentation was not a critique on marriage, as she acknowledged the emotional investm...

I went to a poetry reading on the 17 th May, Warwick Arts Centre, at the University of Warwick. Good writing always inspires me to write something, not necessarily good, so this is why that poetry reading inspired me to write a poem. Louis de Bernières is a talented British writer best known for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. By his name you might expect de Bernières to be French but he is British. It is a shame that authors are not rated by their talent, by their choice of words, the quality of writing, since commercial success outweighs all else, the stories of the powerful survive as history is rewritten from their perspective. De Bernières is fortunate enough to possess both talent and acknowledgment though not as much as he deserves. He talked to a small, yet privileged, following of perhaps twenty people about his lifelong love of poetry, two folders of which he brought with him to delve into. De Bernières, sitting on the theatre stage shared with us that he had overhear...

Okay so this is going off subject from my usual posts. But I just saw this awesome Ted presentation about conductive inks by Dr Kate Stone. Dr Stone's talk blew me away, I got chills. This is what I want to do with an idea I am currently working on! I just created a rough 'graphic novel thing' called Raven’s Heart. I would love to make it interactive. Imagine a black background with almost 'psychadelic' text and pictures in white and red. The idea surrounding Raven’s Heart was to make the reader interact more with the text to view the story.  Here is an example... Now I’m no graphics expert. So if there is anyone out there who is, and therefore can improve on my idea, or if anyone is able to make my dream of creating an interactive book on conductive ink paper come to life please get in touch. I am very very excited about this technology and its creative potential for 'digital' novels.