£15.00 – £20.00
Online workshop via Zoom, 1pm – 3.45pm (with 15 minute break): Journey to the Centre of the Poem: from draft to destination with Vicky Morris
More information and workshop description below.
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Description
Online workshop via Zoom, 1pm – 3.45pm (with 15 minute break): Journey to the Centre of the Poem: from draft to destination with Vicky Morris
What kind of journeys do poems go on – both written journeys and journeys to their end destinations? To paraphrase Paul Valéry ‘A poem is never finished, merely abandoned.’ – but after what considerations can we confidently cut a poem’s cord and let it float out into the world?
Join Vicky Morris to explore these questions in this warm and supportive workshop, open to poets at any stage who want to gain more confidence in knowing when to get the scissors out! We’ll begin by stretching our writing muscle, then move on to look at redrafting and workshopping poems, discussing key considerations and tips for editing with useful before and after example poems.
Leave with the impetus to get honing your work, new insights, and a sharper pair of editing scissors. Prior to the session, participants will be asked to send a poem that they think isn’t quite where it could be.
Author bio:
Vicky Morris is a British/Welsh poet and creative educator based in Sheffield. She has been published in places like The Rialto, Under the Radar and The North, and is the editor of four anthologies of poetry and fiction by emerging young writers. In 2021 she came second in the Munster Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition for her pamphlet If All This Never Happened (Southword Editions, May 2021)
Vicky has won various competitions including the Aurora Prize 2020, and the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition 2019. In 2020 she was shortlisted in the Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition. For many years, Vicky has built development opportunities for young creatives, founding Hive Young Writers in 2016 for writers aged 14 to 30. Vicky has mentored many emerging young poets who’ve gone on to receive accolades such as the New Poets Prize, Foyle Young Poet of the Year and the Young Northern Writers’ Award. She is a recent Arvon/Jerwood mentee, and a current contributing editor at Poetry Wales. www.vickymorris.co.uk
Additional information
| Ticket type | Poetry Wales Magazine Subscriber, Non-subscriber |
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