Thursday, April 23, 2009

Poetry workshop

Good morning all and welcome.

In the last few days I have been talking to Brian from The New Author about a number of projects, and one we would like to run in the next week or two is a poetry workshop where we will give you an image and ask you to write a poem about that image. I have done these exercises before and they are very useful in getting the imagination flowing but we would like to do more than that with this one so we will be asking you to concentrate on certain things within your poem as well. Not the creative stuff, but the mechanics of what makes a good poem.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in doing please let either myself at (http://australianpoet.blogspot.com/) or Brian (http://the-new-author.blogspot.com/) know of your interest so we know how many we have. I plan to be available throughout the entire workshop at any time (unless asleep) to help along the way but the extent of that might depend on the numbers.

This exercise will be lots of fun and we will all learn quite a lot from the exercise if past experience is any guide.

Have a nice weekend and I look forward to posting the outline and the aim of the workshop next week.

Drop by and have a look at Brian's site (http://the-new-author.blogspot.com/)while your going if you have not visited it yet, its a great site with tremendous posts on writing.

BJR

4 comments:

steer clear of falling anvils said...

Sounds like fun! May I join?

Bernard J Rossi said...

Madelein, you are most welcome to join. It will be lots of fun and we will have more information to those wanting to join in over the next couple of days.

Thanks for coming along

BJR

Anonymous said...

Yes Bernie it does work...

Good luck on the project. Your post are great and Brian has a site to admire; happy to see you working with him.

Bernard J Rossi said...

Thanks A.J. and hope you can join us in the workshop.

Brian and I have a few projects we are working on together and we will be sharing them with you in the near future.

BJR