Sat 14 Sept
|The Observer Building
WORKSHOP: John McCullough - Energising Your Poetry
Join the renowned poet and creative writing teacher, John McCullough for a workshop on how to craft and edit your poems.
Time & Location
14 Sept 2024, 14:00 – 17:00
The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DT, UK
About The Event
How can momentum and energy be generated in poems through the use of imagery, phrase-making and original observations?
In this workshop, we'll discuss techniques for evoking, in writing, the speed, sensory overload and information that characterise urban environments, looking at the roles played by features like line length and sentence structure.
Close attention will be paid to a number of poems by Frank O'Hara and Rosemary Tonks (which will be sent out in advance), and John will also go into detail on the compositional and editing processes he uses when creating his own energetic poems which draw on both observation and surreal imagery.
Related writing exercises will encourage you to play with different linguistic registers and to use concrete detail, drawing on what you really do see, hear, smell, taste and touch when exploring urban spaces.
This three-hour workshop is suitable for all poets whether beginners, seasoned professionals and everything…