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‘Can we eat what we already have in our mouths?’: Re-inventing Characters in Poetry
Sat 13 Apr 2019 to Sat 13 Apr 2019
As part of the lead up to the Words in Woods Festival, local poet Sarah Cave is running two poetry workshops with a Dada focus, one for adults and one for children.
Morning workshop | Adults
Using a Dadaist approach to writing poetry, the group will look at how to incorporate pre-existing characters into their poetry. Through a series of creative writing exercises, including anagrams and collage, the group will create a poem similar in style to John Ashberry’s Popeye sestina, ‘Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape’. 2 ½ hours (all abilities)
Afternoon workshop | Children
The children will become Dada poets for the afternoon and explore the anarchic poetry practices of the movement. They’ll create exciting and contemporary feeling poetry. We’ll get to know each other by pulling poems out of a top hat and create Dada poems featuring favourite characters from TV, films and books. 1 ½ hours (approx. ages 7-11)
Sarah Cave is a poet who lives in a wood near Bodmin. She has two previously published pamphlets and her third, like fragile clay, an illustrated chapbook about the Moomins, was published in 2018.
Date: Saturday 13th April 2019 (Adults: 10am-12:30pm | Children: 2pm-3:30pm)
Location: The Old Library, Bodmin
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Additional Information:
Location:
Bodmin
Region(s):
South West England
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