Winchester Discovery Centre, Saturday 23rd March, 10am-4pm, £25 (£22.50 concessions) I love water. I love watching it, I quite like swimming in it, and I very much like that you can make it into tea. And, ever since as a teen I read Larkin’s ‘Water’, I’ve been interested in how water can work in poetry. …
Write me a river… or a sea, ocean, droplet: Poetic Flow poetry workshop, Winchester Read More »
The days are getting shorter and the mornings colder, and the thoughts of children and adults everywhere are turning to new classes. So I thought I’d mention the workshops that I’ve got lined up for the autumn. I’ve had the chance to put together a bonanza bunch at Winchester and Gosport Discovery Centres, and I’m very …
New Workshops for Autumn in Winchester and Gosport Read More »
Thank you very much to the 13 enthusiastic, hard-working, and lively writers who voluntarily spent 6 hours trapped in a room with me last Saturday – learning as much as I could cram in about characters for fiction. This was my second fiction workshop at Winchester DC (after my Flash Fiction workshop in December), …
A brief break from Hampshire Poet news to say thank you very much to everyone who came to my ‘Poetry from Images’ workshop at Winchester Discovery Centre on Saturday. You were a great bunch: that moment when everyone’s hand went up for a shorter lunchbreak, so we could do more poetry, summed it up. Thanks …
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I am very pleased to say that from January I will be teaching Creative Writing classes for children at the P&G Wells Booksellers shop in Winchester. P&G Wells is a wonderful place – the best independent bookshop I know – and I am very excited about teaching there. The classes are for children aged 8-11 (school …
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