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The Word and Image podcast represents a collaboration between the John Curtin Gallery and the Curtin University Creative–Critical Imaginations Research Network in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. In this podcast, staff and students discuss and share their works of creative writing produced in response to exhibitions of artwork at the John Curtin Gallery. The process of responding to a work of visual art by producing a verbal or written description – whether that is poetry, fiction or creative nonfiction – is known as ekphrasis.

A passionate educator and avid reader with a PhD in literacy talks books, strategies, and more.

Welcome to Images in Words where words paint a picture, sketch a moment, highlight shadowy memories, outline forgotten events, trace familiar paths, draw lines to the beginning, add color to somewhere in time, and burnish the magical, mystical, beautiful, happy, mundane moments of life in a world far, far away next door. Join us as we re-imagine the spaces, moments, and lives around us. Listen to our micro stories, read our ebooks, lose yourself in our prints, immerse yourself in our books, seep yourself in the lore.

Gerard Manley Hopkins is undoubtedly one of the greatest poets in the English language. Under the influence of Cardinal John Henry Newman, Hopkins became a Jesuit priest. Now celebrated as a masterful poet, he inspires people throughout the world with his words and example. Hopkins was not only a brilliant poet but also a deeply spiritual man whose works explored religious themes such as Jesuit spirituality and the presence of God in nature.