This year, we ran various poetry taster workshops to celebrate National Poetry Day and to have a go at getting creative with words.
In the first session, we were joined by local writer Emma Prior who brought along some props to get our senses going and think about the memories that the various sights, sounds, smells, touch and tastes brought back. We then had a go at writing, step-by-step, our own poems based on childhood memories using different senses to describe what we could remember.
In the first session, we were joined by local writer Emma Prior who brought along some props to get our senses going and think about the memories that the various sights, sounds, smells, touch and tastes brought back. We then had a go at writing, step-by-step, our own poems based on childhood memories using different senses to describe what we could remember.
For our evening session, we were joined by Arts Groupie who had us working fast, starting off by making mind-maps and then using these words to create poems which we then revised & chopped & changed & re-ordered until we'd written about five different poems in an hour!
Both sessions were really fun & we were all surprised at our hidden poetry talents! Plus we got some great feedback from those who came along:
Excellent session. Amazing what you can achieve with direction.
Excellent, thoroughly enjoyed it. Re-awoke my enthusiasm for poetry.
We were really pleased that the workshops went down well and will definitely looking to run more in the future when we move into The Old Library!
Both sessions were really fun & we were all surprised at our hidden poetry talents! Plus we got some great feedback from those who came along:
Excellent session. Amazing what you can achieve with direction.
Excellent, thoroughly enjoyed it. Re-awoke my enthusiasm for poetry.
We were really pleased that the workshops went down well and will definitely looking to run more in the future when we move into The Old Library!