A Hive Writers’ Day with Rory Waterman
Sunday 20th October 2024 10.30am to 4/4.30pm (with refreshments & lunch break)
Open to young writers (all levels & interests, aged 15 to 30) from across South Yorkshire & the nearby north
The poet Roy Marshall has said that the best poetry is often ‘working consistently towards telling a particular emotional truth’. The thing about good short poems is that you can carry them around in your head – in a more complete way than is possible with a song, a painting, or (at least in most cases) a story. What an amazing opportunity poets have to create brain-portable art that scratches that ever-human itch for truth!
Join prize-winning poet Rory Waterman, author of four collections with Carcanet, to explore both how to write short poems that get stuck in people’s heads, and to consider how we can approach or create the emotional ‘truth’ of a poem. Along the way, you’ll develop your skills in writing powerful images, meaningful line-breaks, and other useful skills to help your poems snap into focus.
Expect a relaxed and supportive day of discussing and responding to an exciting range of poems and writing exercises, and come away with fresh ideas, new drafts and inspiring approaches to writing poems of brevity and truth. Rory will also read from his own work and give tips and tricks on what’s helped him develop as a poet.
Cost: £10 | Booking: [email protected]
Where: Cantor Building, Arundel Street, Sheffield (4 minutes from the train station) Stree view here.
Supported by English & Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University
(Following this writers’ day we have this evening/6.30pm event with Rory Waterman)
Rory Waterman’s collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013; PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award); Sarajevo Roses (2017; shortlisted for Ledbury Forte Prize); Sweet Nothings (2020); and, most recently, Come Here to This Gate (2024), described in the Guardian as ‘a wise and deeply satisfying book’. He is on the English and Creative Writing faculty at NTU, writes regularly for the TLS and other publications, and co-edits New Walk Editions. Author website: www.rorywaterman.com