Annemarie Lopez

I've been away for a while. Here's a little piece I wrote about rituals, creativity and surviving hard times...
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Walking the Shadow City: Taran Khan's path through Kabul’s streets, into its soul Between 2006 and 2013 the writer Taran Khan made multiple trips to Kabul, Afghanistan, a city she felt was misunderstood by many outsiders. She decided to get to know it the best way she knew how, by ...

Taran Khan talked to me about her beguiling travel memoir. Never more relevant than in these dark times.
Walking the Shadow City: Taran Khan’s path through Kabul’s streets, into its soul.
walklistencreate.org/2025/09/15/walking-the-shadow-city-taran-khans-path-through-kabuls-streets-into-its-soul/

A delight to write for this fantastic journal...

‘Walking, here, is a way of exploring artistic possibilities outside of gallery spaces...of conceiving art as a practice of connecting to the landscape.'

Annemarie Lopez joins a gathering of walkers, artists, scholars, and ecologists in Northern Greece www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/wild...

Thank you for your generous and positive spirit Julian... this was a joy to write.

A piece I wrote about a magical encounter in Prespa, far northern Greece, for one of my favourite journals Caught by the River... www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/wild...

Walking Between Worlds: how Lydia Matthews stepped out of the classroom and kept walking “It was risky,” she admits. “I never asked permission. But it was deeply transformative.” The students learned to trust their senses and find an ease with uncertainty

I spoke to Lydia Matthews about why she walked out of the classroom and took her students with her... walklistencreate.org/2025/08/01/w...

Walking with Children You don’t call it a “walk”. Instead, say things like “we’re going exploring”, “going on an adventure”, “climbing trees”, “looking for bear traces”, or “playing street games”. These sound much more app...

My conversation with artist, writer, educator, Clare Qualmann on the eve of Walking Arts Encounters, Prespa, July 2025. On Walking with Children: walklistencreate.org/2025/07/30/w...

It was a great pleasure to edit this wonderful collection of flash fiction inspired by John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps for walk · listen · create walklistencreate.org

Fabulous design by Alban Low, published by Sampson Low Publishers sampsonlow.co/chapbooks/

Gorgeous art and a lovely interview - Julian Hoffman talks to landscape/nature artist Matina Galati in northern Greece #prespa walklistencreate.org/2025/04/23/artwork-for-lifelines-interview-with-matina-galati-julian-hoffman/

Windswept: why women walk Review by Annemarie Lopez The reviewer’s well-thumbed copy What’s a woman to do when she wants a change? Where does she turn when the pressures of work, motherhood or societal expectations ge…

My review of Annabel Abbs's fascinating Windswept... New link!
journeysmakestories.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/w...

Windswept: why women walk Review by Annemarie Lopez The reviewer’s well-thumbed copy What’s a woman to do when she wants a change? Where does she turn when the pressures of work, motherhood or societal expectations ge…

My review of Annabel Abbs's fascinating Windswept...
walkingpsychogeography.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/w...

You can even retrace Victor Hugo's journeys, with this Literary trail and app: In the footsteps of Victor Hugo www.manche-tourism.com/tips-ideas/v...

There’s something extraordinary about these Victor Hugo drawings @Royal Academy, London. It’s cinematic scale - like movie stills or pages from a graphic novel about a dark night of the soul.

Writing prize alert: All you have to do is write 39 words.... It could be a mini spy thriller, or a story of an everyday person caught up in intrigue, or just a tale about walking. Cash prizes and publication glory await... #flashfiction

I love this Picasso sugar lift print, from the Print Room - British Museum. #rainydaysinlondon

There’s always a crowd of people looking at the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum. My favourites are the dads explaining what the Rosetta Stone is to their kids.

YouTube video by Creators Faire Björk: Nature Manifesto - A sound installation at the Centre Pompidou @centrepompidou, Paris

Bjork’s new sound installation at the Pompidou Centre, Paris looks magical.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WoUD...

Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand? We are far more likely to use our hands to type or swipe than pick up a pen. But in the process we are in danger of losing cognitive skills, sensory experience – and a connection to history

When I look at my scrawl these days, I wonder... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Walks - Lost London Churches Project A page of Lost London Churches Walks. Explore the parish boundary markers in the Citythat show where the old vanished churches were.

Lost London Churches is a wonderful project recording the ancient church buildings and parishes of the City of London through collectable cards, books, maps and explorers walks. Here's a page of Lost London Churches walks for you to explore. lostlcp.com/lost-london-...

Wolf moon in London…

New year's resolution to work on your craft or try something new?

Dive into the #MothArchives for two interviews per issue with your favourite authors, poets, and artists – chatting about influences and processes, break throughs and false starts.

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A Tree Dreams in Winter

Bare arms reach in prayer,
Past winter's icy shoulder—
Spring starts to tickle.
#haiku
#wlchaiku

Moon beams pure delight,
Venus waits silent and sure,
Night longs for the kiss. #wlchaiku @walklistencreate.org

Turning wild places into being, through a short poem Write a haiku - post it to Bluesky - a chance to win books by Wainwright Prize nominees Chantal Lyons, Polly Atkin and Sophie Yeo

Some lovely haikus have already been submitted for our haiku comp. You have until Sunday 5 Jan to submit yours. Write as many as you like. What else is there to do in January!? Check out the hashtag #wlchaiku http://dlvr.it/TH8CPZ

Turning wild places into being, through a short poem Write a haiku - post it to Bluesky - a chance to win books by Wainwright Prize nominees Chantal Lyons, Polly Atkin and Sophie Yeo

To write a haiku, follow these steps:
Create a 3-line poem.
The first line has 5 syllables.
The second line 7 syllables.
The third line has 5 syllables.
Focus on nature, images, emotions. Keep it simple and vivid!
http://dlvr.it/TH59VP

The banality of evil.

Ink flows rivers deep,
Acorns scattered, words take root,
Oaks rise, wildness wakes.
#wlchaiku

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People walking in the ‘traffic free’ (limited) streets of the Marais, Paris. #walkinginparis