Workshops in 2024
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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The Craneskin Bag: the making of a spellbinding poem
Online workshop with Roselle Angwin
Sunday 27th October, 2.00–5.00
In Celtic mythology the shaman or druid had his craneskin bag in which to keep his magical tools. I like to think this would have included tools for incantations, spells, and general magic-making with words. Given that words can be both potent and transformative, what might this look like for a poet? We might not want to beglamour our audience, exactly, but maybe we would like to enchant and entrance them a little (interesting root-words for those two).
As poets, we all have strengths and weaknesses: maybe literary devices and tropes that we rely on to the point of overuse, and others we barely use at all.In this workshop we’ll revisit the way we create poems, and between us explore the tools of our trade by which we can make more powerful poems. We’ll revisit imagery and metaphor, the use of verbs, adverbs and adjectives (or not), and most especially the employment of the sound qualities of language which sit at the heart of holding an audience spellbound: rhythm, rhyme and repetition. All this is with a view to becoming more conscious of the tools held within the depths of our own craneskin bag.
There should be time to write a new poem, but please also bring a poem of your own which in your view doesn’t quite cut it.
Roselle Angwin studied Celtic mythology and literature in their original languages at Cambridge. She followed this with a training in transpersonal psychology, and began leading workshops in the transformational power of myth, and in poetry, in 1991. The author of several books of poetry, non-fiction and novels, she also has a well-established reputation for offering inspiring workshops, courses and retreats. Her most recent poetry collection is A Trick of the Light – poems from Iona, and her latest creative non-fiction book is A Spell in the Forest – tongues in trees, and she has just completed the manuscript for a vegan cookbook from the land she and her partner tend in Brittany.
www.roselle-angwin.co.uk & roselle1.substack.com