Writing with(out) time with Deanna Rodger

Writing with(out) time

with Deanna Rodger

September 26th, 10:30-12:30 BST, online, live ticket: £20, playback-only: £10

(recording will be sent out within a week after end of event)

It speeds up, it drags

Chopped into tasks and naps

So much lost

There’s just not enough

Two hours exploring the impact of time on our writing and on our writing practice.

We will pull from the writing of Wislawa Szymborska, Sharon Olds, Lucille Clifton and others.

This workshop is for everyone who feels that there is no time to get started. It will offer space to read and speak on poems and to write from them.

And will also encourage a reflection on where our time goes and how we might choose to use it.

If only I could just rehearse one Wednesday in advance,

or repeat a single Thursday that has passed!

But here comes Friday with a script I haven’t seen.

excerpt from 'Life While You Wait' by Wislawa Szymborska

Deanna Rodger is an international poet, performer and facilitator. She featured on The Art That Made Us (BBC1) and her reimagined version of ‘If’ was read by Serena Williams for International Women's Day (BBC Sport). Her poetry has been welcomed across the world including Mexico, Sudan and Lebanon, and commissions include Adidas, FIFA, St Paul’s Cathedral, Nationwide, Young Vic and Amnesty International. She is the recipient of a number of grants and residencies.

his fingers have left is her most recent publication. It is a poetry and process collection which explores sex and shame, and form poetry stemming from the Kevin Eylot residency at Theatre Collection University of Bristol.

Deanna is a Clore Fellow, a Pervasive Media Studio resident working with creative technology and poetry, and founder of Who Knows Poetry, a creative facilitation training platform. From London, she lives in Bristol with her three daughters and husband.

moss and milk writing workshops are organised by Genevieve Beech from motherlore magazine // substack: https://mossandmilk.substack.com/