Writing Poetry In Company
Approximate run time – 2 hours per week for four weeks.
Thursdays – 8, 15, 22 & 29 October, 10am – 12noon.
£80 for the block of four sessions. Maximum of 10 participants.
This October, we’ll meet weekly to enjoy poetry in the company of others –
reading poems together, talking about what we notice and using them as a
gentle starting point for our own writing.
Each session will explore a different theme, beginning with a selection of
poems to read and enjoy together. We’ll then use these as inspiration for our
own writing, with gentle prompts and plenty of time to follow an idea and see
where it takes us. There will be opportunities to share your writing if you would
like to, but never any pressure to do so.
We’ll explore some of the ways poets use language, image, form and line, but
above all, these workshops are about the pleasure of reading and writing
poetry, making space for creativity and enjoying the encouragement that
comes from writing alongside others.
Open to writers at all levels, whether you already write regularly or are simply
curious to give poetry a try. Come with a notebook, a pen, and an open mind.
Jane Midwinter is a poet, curator, and facilitator based in East Sussex. Her
poetry has appeared in Wild Court, the international poetry journal from King’s
College London, and in the Poet Town anthology.
Jane develops and leads relaxed, welcoming poetry workshops for writers at all
levels, bringing together the enjoyment of reading poetry with the pleasure of
making new work. Drawing on a long career in education, she is particularly
interested in creating spaces where people feel comfortable experimenting with words, sharing ideas and finding their own way into poetry. Jane is
Director and Poetry Curator of Eastbourne LitFest and regularly reads her work
at events across the region.
