& 10 November.
Reading at 11.30am to1.30pm & Writing at 2pm to 4pm
Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, N22 6UJ
*** If poetry at school felt like code-breaking (and you didn't know the code)... If the only poems you read were by dead white men... Or embarrassing little rhymes about snowdrops... If you didn't see why some of it was called poetry at all... If you once tried to write a poem, and got laughed at/patronised/torn apart... If you heard that IF was the nation's favourite poem, & wondered who this nation was then... What you need is UNSCARY POETRY! the workshop that brings poems back where they belong, to real people. We'll read some real poems by real live poets (some of them living not far from you). We'll discuss what makes a poem work and why some don't. And that's it. There'll be no wrong answers, only interesting points of view. And… You can try writing a poem yourself; but you don't have to. The morning session will be for reading and discussing poems. If you'd like to write as well, you can stay on for the afternoon. We'll look at how to get started on a poem, how to ignore the bit of you that says it's not good enough, and how to make it even better. ***
Please book a place in advance at eventbrite ***
Email us on learning@collage-arts.org Call us on 0800 0092 970 ***
The 2-day workshop fee is £40 per person ***
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nclude fiction and picture books for children. He has also edited many anthologies for children, and has written non-fiction for adults including books for teachers. Michael Rosen's work for radio and television includes writing and presenting for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and for the BBC World Service.…
dens Bar, 130 High Road, East Finchley N2 9ED.
There will be some Open Mic spots so you are welcome to come along on spec but to guarantee your spot in the limelight, please register your interest by email to: steven@darkentertainments.co.uk…
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This is a course for anyone who wants to liberate their creativity and immerse themselves in the joy of language. Playful, fun, entertaining, enlightening – explore your word power with Paul Lyalls. Full of off-kilter pen to paper tangoing, including an Edinburgh Festival Comedy approach to humour in poetry, scuba diving what you’ve been surviving via a trip to India!
Enjoy this set of 6 workshops, one of 3 separate sets which can be taken in any order.
1) Should have could have poetry tool box.
2) Journey’s and the travelogue in conversation.
3) A sense of place (2) and sorry not sorry.
4) Image detectives and news you can use.
5) As the saying goes.
6) Tone and setting – gambling not betting.
A note to prose writers: have you ever wondered what it is like to write in the poetic form? Perhaps you write in prose automatically, but would like to try to use language in another way. If your fiction needs a lift, if your life-writing needs lilt, if your central characters don’t quite sing (or even if they do!) you can free your writing through poetry.
We would love to welcome you to our writing community where you can progress your work, share ideas with other writers, and focus on your writing away from distractions.…
the home of poet Michael Donaghy and his wife, Maddy, who has written about him here. You can hear Michael reading some of his works in the Poetry archive here
-Another Harringay resident is the poet Eva Salzman. Examples of her work can be found here.
-We like to write a bit about poetry here on HOL too. Here are some posts about events, favourite poems and and some attempts by contributors to write a Haiku for Harringay.
-We also post poetry events regularly on HOL. Here's a few we've featured in the past.
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This year's theme is 'Stars' and I'm sure its perfectly okay to choose a part of The Sneetches by Dr Seuss as my poem about stars to share. I often think of this poem when I go to the posher parts of London...can't imagine why.
Now the Star-bellied Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-bellied Sneetches had none upon thars.
The stars weren't so big; they were really quite small.
You would think such a thing wouldn't matter at all.
But because they had stars, all the Star-bellied Sneetches
would brag, "We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches."
With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they'd snort, " We'll have nothing to do with the plain-bellied sort."
And whenever they met some, when they were out walking,
they'd hike right on past them without even talking.
When the Star-bellied children went out to play ball, could the Plain-bellies join in their game? Not at all!
You could only play ball if your bellies had stars,
and the Plain-bellied children had none upon thars.
When the Star-bellied Sneetches had frankfurter roasts, or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts,
they never invited the Plain-bellied Sneetches.
Left them out cold in the dark of the beaches.
Kept them away; never let them come near,
and that's how they treated them year after year.
Excerpt The Sneetches by Dr Seuss
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Got any 'Star' themed poems to share? Your own or someone else's...…