Workshops in 2023
Please note: Unless otherwise stated, face-to-face workshops run from 10.00am-4.00pm.
Online workshops run from 2.00pm-5.00pm.
The fee for in-person workshops is from £25-£50, depending on what you can afford.
The fee for online workshops is £15, concessions £10.
Bookings open about a month before each workshop. Please email Simon Millward to reserve a place. Payment should be made asap to confirm your booking. For payment details contact Terry Dyson.
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Please note: Unless otherwise stated, face-to-face workshops run from 10.00am-4.00pm.
Online workshops run from 2.00pm-5.00pm.
The fee for in-person workshops is from £25-£50, depending on what you can afford.
The fee for online workshops is £15, concessions £10.
Bookings open about a month before each workshop. Please email Simon Millward to reserve a place. Payment should be made asap to confirm your booking. For payment details contact Terry Dyson.
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Poetry the Healing Art? with Sue Boyle
Online workshop Sunday 26th November
2.00-5.00 pm
It is no coincidence that the thirteenth century Persian poet Rumi is currently one of the most popular and influential poets in the West. Awareness of suffering and the need to find sources of healing seem to be playing a larger part in Western poetry than they used to do. Global events remind us again and again that recording and sharing our personal experiences may no longer be the only thing that poets are called upon to do. Many of us already know the healing power of speaking out our truths. But perhaps today we are also expected to offer a pathway of healing beyond ourselves to the suffering inhabitants of the wider world.
'Only the song through the land hallows and heals.' Rainer Maria Rilke
This workshop will open doors for thinking about and discussing some of the different kinds of healing that can be offered through poetry and explore the idea of poetry as an agent for personal change. How can our own practice take us to places where we might find and share the health and healing we all need? Must a poem of personal change be autobiographical, or can other ways of writing inspire the kinds of poetry many readers and publishers today are looking for?
As well as the range of examples which Sue Boyle will present to the workshop, she will be delighted to hear in advance from poets who would like to share work of their own with the zoom group.
Poetry Business prizewinner Sue Boyle has given festival workshops in Exeter, Appledore and Torbay. She has worked with Moor Poets over many years, including two zoom series during the lockdowns, The Shapes of Poetry and The Waste Land Revisited. Her verse novel, The Letters from Mexico, and meditations on the Holocaust, Report from the Judenplatz, have each received full stage performances as well as featuring in invited guest readings across the West Country.
Online workshop Sunday 26th November
2.00-5.00 pm
It is no coincidence that the thirteenth century Persian poet Rumi is currently one of the most popular and influential poets in the West. Awareness of suffering and the need to find sources of healing seem to be playing a larger part in Western poetry than they used to do. Global events remind us again and again that recording and sharing our personal experiences may no longer be the only thing that poets are called upon to do. Many of us already know the healing power of speaking out our truths. But perhaps today we are also expected to offer a pathway of healing beyond ourselves to the suffering inhabitants of the wider world.
'Only the song through the land hallows and heals.' Rainer Maria Rilke
This workshop will open doors for thinking about and discussing some of the different kinds of healing that can be offered through poetry and explore the idea of poetry as an agent for personal change. How can our own practice take us to places where we might find and share the health and healing we all need? Must a poem of personal change be autobiographical, or can other ways of writing inspire the kinds of poetry many readers and publishers today are looking for?
As well as the range of examples which Sue Boyle will present to the workshop, she will be delighted to hear in advance from poets who would like to share work of their own with the zoom group.
Poetry Business prizewinner Sue Boyle has given festival workshops in Exeter, Appledore and Torbay. She has worked with Moor Poets over many years, including two zoom series during the lockdowns, The Shapes of Poetry and The Waste Land Revisited. Her verse novel, The Letters from Mexico, and meditations on the Holocaust, Report from the Judenplatz, have each received full stage performances as well as featuring in invited guest readings across the West Country.