The Poetic Journey with Jennifer Compton

Poet Jennifer Compton help you with next step for your work and poetic journey in this three-hour workshop. No matter where you are on your poetic journey, there’s always the next step.

Outline the next steps for your poetic work in a safe and nurturing space. Please bring one or two poems you’d like to workshop with the class as well as pen and paper to participate in the writing exercises.

Tutor Jennifer Compton has been in the poetry game for a very long time, indeed ever since she sold her first poem at the age of 14 for five pounds seven shillings and sixpence. In 2013 her poem ‘Now You Shall Know’ won the Newcastle Poetry Prize. In 2025 she is a co-judge of that very same prize with up-and-coming Sydney poet Eunice Andrada.