Arts for Health
Following on from workshops at the end of 2012, I will be returning to Blackpool Central Library to run another 5 workshops this Spring.
Dead Good Poets
From 23rd February 2013 I'll be facilitating poetry workshops at Blackpool Central Library on a monthly basis. These are planned to run the Saturday before the DGP open mic evenings which occur on the first Friday of each month. See the Dead Good Poets' Facebook page for information.
Poetry workshops currently available for groups of up to 20 people:
These workshops are accessible to beginners but also include advanced content for more accomplished writers. Detailed workshop plans are available on request.
Dead Good Poets
From 23rd February 2013 I'll be facilitating poetry workshops at Blackpool Central Library on a monthly basis. These are planned to run the Saturday before the DGP open mic evenings which occur on the first Friday of each month. See the Dead Good Poets' Facebook page for information.
Poetry workshops currently available for groups of up to 20 people:
- Like a starving wolf: senses, emotion and nature-based metaphor in three forms (3 hours)
- Faulkner's 三 things : experience, knowledge, imagination and collaborative Japanese Renga (4 hours)
- Happy ever grafters: fairytales, snapshot scenes, symbolism and Eliot's objective correlatives (2 hours)
- Stranger than fiction: iconic characters, memory and rhyming quatrains (2 hours)
- What the driftwood felt: personification, animation and concentrated narrative (2 hours)
- Poke Lear's monster: nonsense poetry, alliteration, assonance and rhyme culminating in a collaborative poem and lots of silliness (2 hours)
- Traveling through a summer morning: mise en scene, light, colour, and similes inspired by Richard Wilbur and William Stafford (2 hours)
- Wood in th'ole: idiom and dialect, scent and taste, Liz Lochhead, Joseph Baron and a fanciful nonet (2 hours)
- Coffee and roses: short poems for personalized greetings cards, Matthea Harvey and anadiplosis (2 hours)
These workshops are accessible to beginners but also include advanced content for more accomplished writers. Detailed workshop plans are available on request.