Play isn’t just for kids: it stimulates the brain and enhances cognitive abilities such as critical thinking, problem solving and creativity. All necessary skills for poets.
Workshop exercises include creating a personal word bank, customising a die and making word cards. And of course, writing poems!
The skills that you will learn in this session can also be applied to short stories and non-fiction.
This is the workshop that puts the fun back into writing!
You will learn:
- To draw on your personal heritage/culture
- To create a custom word bank
- To embrace mistakes as part of the process
- To write bespoke metaphors
- To write a monostich poem
About the tutor:
Indrani Perera is a Sri Lankan/German/Australian poet, Pocketry Almanack editor, Circus of Similes creator, 3CR Spoken Word show host and author of Defenestration and pas de deux. Her poems have appeared on library receipts in Naarm, the big screen in Boorloo and on phones at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indrani has been widely anthologised, published worldwide in literary journals and shortlisted for major poetry awards. Indrani was a National Guest Poet at the Perth Poetry Festival. www.indraniperera.com
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