Sing Me the Creation: Creative Writing Sourcebook [Paperback]

This is an inspirational workbook of creative writing exercises for poets and teachers, and for all who wish to develop the life of the imagination. Paul Mathews gives us permission to indulge our fantasy, and then, when that life is flowing, provides the tools to craft it into poetry and song. There are over 300 exercises for improving writing skills, for self study. They are also ideally suited for group work with adults. Teachers will find these exercises popular with students.A practical sourcebook for educators, creative writers and all who seek to nurture the imaginationIt was in 1996 that I found my way to a book called Sing Me the Creation that would become a favourite companion over y ears of teaching creative writing, running workshops and writing groups, and conducting my own writing experiments. I have that treasured signed copy, and here now, too, is the revised edition, published in 2015, updated for the 21st century. The figure on the books cover, a detail from Portrait of a Young Man by Master of the View of St. Gudula, holds open a heart book to reveal words  a fitting image, surely, for a book which champions heart-work and the writers relationship with his core medium, language.This is a working source book and a long way from what we might call a technical how to write manual, though there is ample here to sustain and develop any writing practitioner. Described in the foreword by depth psychologist Dr Robert Sardello as a rare book, Sing Me the Creation offers an integrating vision. Paul Matthews approach, says Sardello, fosters interiority of word and world, the co-penetration of one with another and we are reminded of James Hillmans use of the term angelology, for this fits with Matthews view that words can be seen as holy messengers, bringers of news that can enliven, restore, unify. There is a healing theme that runs through Sing Me the Creation: if we can inhabit and connect more fully with our words, then this can help botl3¦