Workshop: Taking your Words for a Walk, Kit Kelen
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Poetry is both speech and written word. The distinction has been divisive in recent times, but the best poetry on paper does have a pulse and makes use of the breath. Likewise the best spoken word will fare beautifully on paper, where the head has more time to take it in. Poetry works when it takes words where they haven’t been, somewhere interesting and unexpected.One of Kit’s several modes of gathering materials for the making of poems is writing while walking. Observations collected on the way help to situate your work in a here and now. Writing while walking is also an infallible cure for so-called writer’s block because there is always something to observe, through your senses! The peripatetic mode brings poetry production out of the closet and into the public domain, In this workshop, we will go somewhere on foot to gather lines or ideas, and then return to base, to share them, and to see if there aren’t some poems to be made out of the materials we’ve found.
Date
Friday 10 October 2025 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Launceston Library
71 Civic Square, Launceston Tasmania 7250
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Workshop: Taking your Words for a Walk, Kit Kelen
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