Young Writer in Residence, Simon Cox Saturday 27th September 1.00-4.00pm
Simon will give a workshop Use Your Allusion: Creative Reading as a Prompt for Poetry revolving around the use of the work of other poets as a springboard for the participants’ own poetry. Exercises may include:
• 'Covering' the work of an older poet i.e. trying to ‘rewrite’ an Augustine period, or Romantic era or Ancient Roman poem in a modern context.
• ‘Replying” to a poem- perhaps disagreeing with the inferences of a poet, perhaps taking up their themes, perhaps rewriting their poem from the perspective or a minor or under-represented character.
• Referencing or alluding to a poem- perhaps isolating a single phrase from the work of an admired poet and then writing a different poem around it, perhaps alluding to the poem so obliquely that many readers would miss it, perhaps borrowing a character, a rhyme or a line for a title.
The workshop aims to have participants consider the nature of intertextuality in poetry, the richness that reference and allusion can lend a poem as well as the risks of obscurity, opacity (and plagiarism) that allusion can generate. It will also provide attendees with a number of generative strategies for their writing. Participants are encouraged to bring along their own favourite poems, poems they despise and poetry they themselves have written.
Cost $3 for members $5 for non-members
Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre
11 Old York Road
Greenmount WA 6056
Please confirm your place by calling 9294 1872 or by email kspf@iinet.net.au