THE PEOPLE’S EYE

With the focus being on creativity this selection of writings blends essays, memoir, family and social history with short stories, poems and local history narrative utilising a variety of themes. Giving a nod to a particular project, that of The People’s Eye, the book commences by asking what is creativity and where do you find it? There is a critique of art, culture and society asking both where are we today, why are we there and how did we get here? An account opens up attempting to engage the reader in the creative quest and posing philosophical questions about the nature and value of creativity, it’s importance, relevance and essential ingredient in life and our evolutionary development. Creativity is an under-researched area that needs to be amplified in all academic areas. Creativity is examined from a wider picture including many aspects of art and a sideways swipe at the perils of neo-conceptual novelty art so prevalent today. Poems include coverage of nature, self ruin, death, the weather and personal tributes. Rationalism is placed under the spotlight to add a further serious thinking tone and what it is to be a writer with a critical response on the state of the novel today! Other prose pieces look at alienation and the trials of growing up and industrial nostalgia in what is a mixed selection that swiftly switches topics. All the writings are examples of creative writing and by their nature many are experimental and float a collection of ideas.