Poetry Workshop - Put a Line Through It

Ever been scared to re-write your poems, that there's nothing more to add? Let Rich help you find new dimensions to your written work.

Put a Line Through It

This workshop is based on work you have already written. You can bring anything, but you'll work on 6 to 8 lines of your own pre-written material, so perhaps bring an excerpt from something you've previously written. This can be on any topic, theme or subject, and could even be the material you generated in the morning's workshop with Rich, if you attended that.

Often, writers of poetry can feel that what they've written is sacrosanct, cannot be changed or re-written. Let's face it - re-writing a poem can be hard work, and off-putting. But if you do, you can find new dimensions, new ideas and refine your thinking and the way you put things.

This workshop is aimed at breaking that barrier, and illustrating the benefit of re-drafting work, enabling a writer to find new aspects of ideas they've already written about, or new ways of putting things that work better, or add something that previously wasn't there.

Using material you have already written, you'll be guided through a set of fun drafting and re-drafting exercises and discussions, aimed at deepening your understanding of your own work, and enhancing your creativity.

You may find yourself enhancing and refining what you have brought to work on, you may find yourself writing out a new idea, or you may find yourself deepening your ideas, and creating something you're not expecting.

The output of the workshop will be a re-written and re-drafted excerpt, possibly a new idea, but definitely inspiration and energy - and you will have the opportunity to read your draft at the end of the workshop.

Please bring: something to write with, something to write on, and an open mind.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the workshop starts, so you can grab a drink before we get going.

There will be a break halfway through.

Tea and coffee are provided.