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| Workshop five:- Thinking out of the Box - Agnes Meadows | ||
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workshop did what it said on the poster, to paraphrase the advert. I've
been in the doldrums and haven't written much during the last few
months yet I wrote a poem in the workshop in fifteen minutes. I'm not
sure if it will get me my Andy Wharhol fifteen minutes but it is a
complete poem and I was mightily pleased. Agnes started by telling us that in order to get going in a different (or in my case any) direction we should consider how 'others' feel when we write a poem. These 'others' could be the inanimate object which the narrator of the poem is holding, or using, or about to send to someone else or... She expounded her theory much better than I have, and it worked. There were about eight people present and we all managed to have a poem after the given time. Just to show that it was not a fluke, Agnes took one line from one of the poems and from there asked questions of the writer and wrote the answers on the flip chart. After a few well thought out questions we had another poem written out before us. This exercise was repeated and each time yet another poem appeared, so I in fact wrote two poems in as many hours - I did have a lot of help, especially with the second one, but I think I now have the opportunity to get writing again and I've enough buzzing around to rework the poems into something I didn't intend at first, something much better... So a big Thankyou to Agnes for a great workshop that really worked. Dave Chambers, Newham Writers Workshop. |
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