Poetry of Place and Belonging

In this workshop, you are invited to consider your relationship with place and how this emerges in and shapes your writing. In conversation with examples of place-writing from across space and time, you will have the opportunity to articulate and develop your own constructions of place.

Together, we will consider questions of belonging and unbelonging, the nuances of being ‘from’ and being ‘of’ a place and the conditions under which space turns to place and place turns to home. You will have time to write and workshop your own poetry over the course of the day. While the session focuses on poetic techniques, fiction and non-fiction writers can use these techniques in their work to evoke place.