Workshop Topics
See also Upcoming readings/workshops Writing Workshops with Robyn (c) All workshops involve a talk and discussion of poems, a reflective moment, writing poetry/prose and discussion of that work for each participant. These workshops are appropriate for, and have been successfully conducted with, established and early writers; poets and prose writers – and enjoyed in many countries. If you would like Robyn to give a workshop, please contact her on her email address - see 'contacts', and she can supply further detail on each topic. 1. Sweet Words: Valuing the Particular. It is often difficult to find a way into the poem we want to write and to bring to it a sense of the immediate. Beginning in the particular, we can watch an organic growth occur. In particulars lie the story, the poem/prose piece ready to unfold. This workshop will help you to uncover it, to shape it. 2. Living flames – Burning Words. A workshop with fire.
From brushfires, to bog fires, through the flame of the holy spirit to the pagan fires of solstice, fire has been both warm companion and feared and capricious renegade. 3. Leaving home - finding home. Writing out the experience of exile, emigration, immigration and belonging. 4. Ocean, river, tear: water in flood and famine A poetry/prose workshop on water; its practical and mythical significance. 5. Landscapes of the self This topic emerges out of a love of place, and the way landscape can both be represented in poetry as realism, as well as the way it can become come to represent interior life, including the emotional and spiritual landscape. 6. Digging the past into the present: the archaeology of writing.
The processes of writing are often like an archaeological dig and use similar processes: turning over a rtefacts, considering stratification, piecing together fragments, blowing away the dust of memory. 7. Silence & its dialects
Music is enhanced by its necessary partner, silence. So too, the forms of poetry and of prose need space to breathe. This workshop will discuss the many shapes of silence. |
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