Welcome to Almost An Island

Almost an Island is a writing project exploring the Greenwich Peninsula in London through words, sounds and stories.

Writers in residence, Sarah Butler and Aoife Mannix, will be blogging about the project. They will record their own responses to the Peninsula and the people they meet. The blog will be a showcase for new writing Sarah and Aoife create over the course of the project, and for the writing and words of workshop participants.

Sarah and Aoife will be creating a soundscape that will represent the lives and stories of those connected with the Greenwich Peninsula. They are running a series of workshops and activities to support this - check under 'events' for more details.

The soundscape will be presented at a public event in November 2008. Keep an eye on the blog for details

Almost an Island is a collaboration between UrbanWords and Spread the Word, in association with Art on the Greenwich Peninsula. The project is funded by Awards For All.

Sunday 26 October 2008

Vision in the noon day sky

Vision in the noon day sky, not a flap as he goes by.
Kaleidoscopic vision but he spies me.
Down and down he dives towards me,
a source of food he does seek, not me, matie, not this week.

My escape is helped by this vision in black,
stealth and sleek with a hunting track,
as a paw lashes out there he springs too late…
Into the water no turning back.

Dragonflies buzzing all around me,
their rainbow wings do astound me.
I spot a hippo in mid flow
and gave a weak cry Miooooo.

A dolphin came to my rescue.

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