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The Poetry Business: Apart Together: Braving The Elements - Writing Poems with Sarah Fletcher
Mon 15 Aug 2022 to Mon 15 Aug 2022
In this workshop, we will explore how we can take inspiration from the elements to ignite our poems. Can we write a poem that starts as water and transitions into ice? How about a poem that burrows deeper in the Earth as it reaches its climax? From John Milton to Elizabeth Bishop, we will read, discuss, and write ways we can play with elements through poems.
Robert Frost famously mused “Some say the world will end in fire,/Some say in ice”; 17th century poet Anne Bradstreet imagined that “The Fire, Air, Earth and water did contest/Which was the strongest, noblest and the best”.
Elements have always captured the imagination of writers. Indeed, the best poems have an elemental quality to them: they set one’s mind on fire, or shock them like a bucket of ice water over the head. But how can we utilise their power in a world that seems increasingly distant from its rudimentary building blocks?
Sarah Fletcher is an American-British writer currently researching a PhD on pain and language in Aberystwyth. Her poems have appeared in The White Review, Poetry London, Poetry Review and other publications. Caviar is her third pamphlet. Her first full-length collection PLUS ULTRA is to be published in 2023.
Date: Monday 15 August 2022, 19:00 – 20:30 BST
Location: Online
Cost: £19.76 – £46.60
There are two bursary spaces available per workshop for writers from groups that are under-represented in contemporary poetry or who are experiencing financial hardship.
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Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
£19.76 – £46.60
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