What’s driving
Your Creativity?
Art is what makes us
Human.
Absolutely every aspect of our lives is creative in one way or another. We unconsciously consume the creativity that produced the cereal box we read the back of. We consciously choose the music or the podcast we listen to while we commute. The daily, mundane act of getting dressed relies on so many unseen creative inputs as the obvious creativity we experience when we go to a movie, or the theatre, or an art gallery, or our kids’ Christmas play, or wonder what that street art spray painted on the bridge support means.
Everything is Art…
…and while I love pretty much all art, I do spend more of my time paying attention to poetry, and imagery, and music which you’ll see reflected in the running list of my latest blog posts below. Or, read all of my archived posts here: Lunatic Engine, the Blog and sign up to get notified when a new post goes up
About the Blog: Named after my first book, which was published in 2020, Lunatic Engine the Blog is a collection of micro-reviews and short posts about the things that are driving my creativity, things that I hope will resonate with you, things I believe deserve more attention.
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2026, Week TWO: “The Beauty of Vultures” by Wendy McGrath
The photos are gorgeous, birds in various states of perch, and there are photos of other animals as well. One of my favourites is a close-up of a deer, peering at us from a yellow background, diffuse sunlight or bokeh of Birds-foot trefoil, from under a small cluster of aspen leaves positioned like a crown.…
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2026, Week ONE: “Routine Maintenance” by Marco Melfi
These poems meditate on the mundane and place those things, those moments, those small acts we often ignore into their proper context. There are meditations. There are deep breaths. There are the small things that remind us there are no small things. There are quotidian artifacts of the profound that you can hold in your…
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, FINAL WEEK: Art is What Makes Us Human.
Fulfilling my obligations to my long-neglected TBR one book a time. Want to know why? I explain it in the first post here. Posting striking lines daily on BlueSky and Instagram Art is the application of creativity to an object, process, or activity. Creativity is that touch of originality, of whimsy, disorder, randomness, spontaneity; that…
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Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Eight, “Brother Fire” by W.S. Piero
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily…
Paul Pearson 