Events

To coincide with printmaker and painter Ivy Smith’s exhibition exploring the seaside, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore coast in our poetry: how we write about the coast, coasting and drifting.

In this day-long poetry retreat at Cromer Artspace, bring along poems in progress and learn tools and techniques to help you re-see and redraft your writing. The day will consist of group discussions of poems, writing exercises and there will be opportunities to read aloud your work and receive both peer and tutor feedback.

To coincide with a photography exhibition, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore imagery, metaphors and showing not telling in our poetry.

To coincide with an exhibition of textiles, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore tactility in poems: how we write the sense of touch, how we write about what touches us, how we touch and move a reader.

To coincide with an exhibition linked to Manchester, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore how we write about the city: how we can reflect its scale, energy and diversity in the poems we write about it.

To coincide with the festive season, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore poetry about the family and festivities.