Loving place: poetry exercises
- a selection of poetry prompts to get you writing about place BY CLARE SHAW
Topophilia - the love of place - was first used by W.H. Auden in 1948 in his introduction to Betjeman’s “‘Slick but Not Streamlined”. I bet none of us are surprised that a word which expresses our emotional connection to place finds its roots in poetry.
Me, I’m definitely a topophile. Anyone who has spent any time with me will have heard me claim that Ha…
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