In an era of crisis and isolation, reading poetry can offer us the experience of feeling less alone. And so can writing it.
This workshop – for poets of all levels of experience – will help you write poems that include other voices while also harnessing the power and limitations of your own voice. By reading and discussing poems, and through immersive writing exercises (both solo and collaborative), we'll access the otherness of ourselves and the intimate proximity of others.
At the end, you'll have written the drafts of three new poems, and you'll have expanded your sense of what you can do with poetry.
By the end of this workshop you will have:
written the drafts of three new poems
expanded your sense of what you can do with poetry
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
all poetry experience levels
Ticketing:
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:
Andy Jackson is a poet, essayist and creative writing teacher. He has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Poetry Award and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. Andy has co-edited disability-themed issues of Southerly and Australian Poetry Journal, and his latest poetry collection is Human Looking (Giramondo, 2021).