04. A poem and a prompt – Writing through fear

When you don’t want to write about the thing, and yet you do

The voiceover in which I realise I don’t know how to pronounce archipelago - keeping things perfectly imperfect, as always

If ever there was a prompt to spark an existential crisis at 3.30am, it was this one. In a workshop on writing through grief, we were tasked with responding to Mary Oliver’s When Death Comes.

Led by effervescent Scottish poet and wr…