This workshop explores the use of first person in poetry, how it can be used by poets both as a way to engage with readers and as a way to invigorate the writing and creative process. During this workshop we will look at ways authors have used the I in their work to investigate the space between the poet and reader; we’ll look at the confessional I, the intellectual I, the embodied I, the machine I, the generated I, the transhuman I.
The work of a variety of poets will be explored and used as inspiration. Participants should leave the workshop with at
By the end of this workshop you will have:
completed at least two new poem drafts
learned new ideas about how to use the I in your poems in inventive, productive and unexpected ways.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
all experience levels
Ticketing:
This workshop will run twice, so please choose the date that suits you.
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession ($30) to full ($40) to feelin’ flush ($50, i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a li’l extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Rico Craig is a writer, workshop facilitator and award-winning poet whose work melds the narrative, lyrical and cinematic. His poetry has been awarded prizes or shortlisted for the Montreal, Val Vallis , Newcastle, Dorothy Porter and University of Canberra Poetry Prizes. Bone Ink (UWAP), his first poetry collection, was winner of the 2017 Anne Elder Award and shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2018. His second collection Our Tongues Are Songs will be published by Recent Work press in April 2021. Since 2012 he has worked as Storyteller-in-Chief at the Story Factory, designing and facilitating creative writing programs for young people, and teacher development programs for adults. He has lectured in numerous tertiary courses including: Creativity, Youth Culture and The Arts; Integrated Arts and Education; and was a judge for the 2021 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.