The Dreaming Path

Welcome to the The Dreaming Path.

Poetry comes from a deeper connection to the feeling subconscious, not from the thinking mind

I have returned to University (2020) to study Creative Writing and English Literature and am very much enjoying the course (although it’s been interrupted by ill health in 2023). I do not publish my University work here and that includes creative writing. I need to keep it more ‘under my hat.’ My poetry (when officially published) is now written under another name and in that name, I was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize in 2022.

I will be posting less work here than formerly but I will post all poems written during National Poetry Month each April – one poem a day. I will also change direction a little here and I will be posting interesting articles and recommendations for reading. So I am not actually leaving. If you like my writing you will find loads in my archives which go all the way back to 2014. (The archive drop-down is on the right and scroll down). I am not, by a long way, claiming they are all good and I have gone back and edited many of them since (without adding those changes here). This was formerly my poetry notebook and I didn’t just just publish what I thought were the best – I put everything on here.

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I began The Dreaming Path in 2014 as a place to share some of my poems. It has became a Writer’s Journal (where I included both the good and the bad). I now use it mainly as a place to review my past attempts and draw inspiration for further writing.

Driftwood  (on menu bar) is a random collection of this and that. Book recommendations included.

Travel Tales ~  travel tales and other ramblings

Writing Prompts (on menu bar) is exactly what it says it is ! I hope you find a bit of inspiration there.

Other Places ~ I took part in National Poetry Month in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. This means committing to writing a poem a day all through April. I skipped 2022 due to a heavy workload on my poetry that month for my degree. This year (2023) I have time again and have submitted this site at https://www.napowrimo.net/participants-sites/

see https://napowrimodreamingpath.wordpress.com/ for my previous contributions and NaPoWriMo

My Amazon Author Page is listed as A.Gouedard (it’s actually my previous name). Now, when I send submissions to publishers, I use my current name and you may see that at the bottom of some of my poems.  These days I mostly post my work on a different blog (but I come here for NaPoWriMo each April).

I have been published by Three Drops from a Cauldron twice – three poems.

Three Drops from a Cauldron: Issue Two

Seven by A. Gouedard

and also featured on druidcast (read by Eala Du)
http://druidcast.libsyn.com/druidcast-a-druid-podcast-episode-102 (under one of my pseudonyms – Moon Pryderi). The poem is about Rhiannon.

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© 2014 A. Gouedard and © A.Chakir 2023.  All rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited without permission from the author. You may not, except with my express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system unless my authorship is clearly stated and there is a link to this webpage and my rights are reserved.

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