I'm very excited to say I'll be running my Everyday Epic workshop with Writing NSW on Saturday, 7th Sept - 10am - 4pm.
Absolutely love that I'm getting a chance to do this workshop again! I think it's one of the best workshops I've created and always gets a great response from participants. Though even with that said...this time around I'll be making a few changes and additions. I've been doing some pretty intense reading and thinking about poetry over the last couple of months and there are a few new ideas and poems that I'm going to drop into the workshop.
The Everyday Epic
This world is full of epic, otherworldly moments: clouds shifting, the hunt for new earrings, people changing car tyres. These everyday moments give poetry its texture and provide poets with an endless seam of inspiration for their writing.
In this poetry workshop, Rico Craig will guide you to sift through the seemingly mundane, searching for the experiences you can expand to epic significance. You will bring your poetic vision to bear on the ordinary and look at the way your own inclination toward the poetic can be used to expand a reader's perception of the worlds we share in our poetry.
You can get a ticket at the Writing NSW site.
We'll look at work from poets like Kayo Chingonyi, Kiki Petrosino, Natalie Harkin, Aracelis Girmay - plus some surprises that haven't featured in this workshop previously! I've been loving Will Harris, Shastra Deo and Golnoosh Nour recently...so I feel like they might find their way into the workshop. They all have their own special ways of discovering the epic in the everyday. Also, it's inevitable that I'll chat about how my recent collection Nekhau draws together the everyday and the epic.
