Poetry of Adventure Workshop
June 2023
Aimed at Y9 - Y13, this workshop will inspire students with the excitement of poetry, exploring how words can capture more than pictures, and how the beauty, terror and challenge of the oceans can be translated into verse.
Illustrated with slides and readings, students will work together, discussing and evaluating word choices, rhythms, structure, imagery and metaphor, all in the context of poems written on watch and scribbled in my bunk directly afterwards while also trying to grab a few hours’ sleep. They will be able to trace the process from scribbled draft to final version, analysing the poetic choices involved.
If they thought poets could not be men and women of action, this will change their minds!