Hi Louise,
I think it is why I am a performance poet. My oral IQ is very high, so I can talk as long as I need to about most things and talking enables me to understand things. My ability to digest written text is much harder and I read very slowly (which has a definite impact on my writing and study).
Writing takes me a long time to, not to get it all out, but to make sense of it, to enforce structure and sense. But I think that is why it has become so vital to my life. Yes I can talk and talk and talk and it sounds pretty good. But its almost so easy it's not thought through conciously. Writing gives me a chance to address my thoughts in my own time, enforce structure and sense onto them and understand myself better. Then bring them back to being said in a new epiphanic way. Because I always learn something about myself.
I think, largely because of my dyslexia, i couldn't have been anything but a performance poet. There is more to it than this - obviously my visual thinking helps a lot in terms of imagery and I think my developed understanding on process helps to. I also work with young people that cannot speak verbally (for various reasons) writing and performing there work.
Sorry this is a bit rushed. Hopefully there is enough here for you to unpick and ask any more questions you want to.
Warmest Regards,
Deborah
On 6 November 2011 16:15, Louise Bancroft
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Hi Deborah
This raises a whole load of questions around how we define 'disability'...
How does dyslexia impact your writing, if at all? Have you explored this or any other issues around disability in your poetry?
Kind regards
Louise
PS - Amazon have Beauty is a Verb in stock :-)On 2 November 2011 00:56, Deborah Stevenson
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Hi Louise,
I have Dyslexia and am a poet. When you ask if I consider myself as having a disability do you mean my dyslexia in generally or specifically in relationship to me as a writer?
Warmest Regards,
Deborah
Good afternoon
I am an MA English/Creative Writing student currently researching representations of disability in poetry. Does anyone have any examples/comments on the above quotation/comments on this topic generally? Your thoughts would be much appreciated...
I would also be interested to know if the poet would describe themselves as having a disability.
Kind regards
Louise Bancroft
Kind regards
Louise
