This is a workshop designed for poets interested in working with other poets in an editorial capacity — including in relation to your own work. The workshop draws on Felicity’s decade as Poetry Editor at UQP, and her experience and research as a mentor and supervisor of postgraduate students over 15 years.
It will be a hands-on sharing of various editors’ and mentors’ techniques, with examples of editing practice, and an accent on finding the unique and delicate balance between sharing generously your knowledge and experience as a poet to extend another poet in their own unique practice. This may be informally — an edit-swap between poets — or in a more formal capacity such as university teaching or journal editing. There will be a focus on the art of giving feedback in ways that are clear, encouraging and inspiring, while always responsive to the particular poet’s needs and poetics.
By the end of this workshop you will have:
learned some of the ways poetry editors extend and develop others’ work — and your own!
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is best suited for:
intermediate and experienced poets who are interested in developing their work as mentors and editors of other poets’ work
those working to develop other poets’ work in other contexts, such as the classroom
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:
Felicity Plunkett is a poet and critic. Her latest collection is A Kinder Sea. Her debut collection Vanishing Point (UQP, 2009) won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize and was short-listed for several awards. She has a Vagabond Press Rare Objects chapbook Seastrands (2011). Felicity was Poetry Editor for University of Queensland Press and edited Thirty Australian Poets (UQP, 2011). She has a PhD from Sydney University and is a widely-published reviewer. She is Australian Book Review’s Patrons’ Fellow.