A workshop with Joelle Taylor: The Margins Are What Holds the Page Together
The Margins Are What Holds the Page Together
A workshop with Joelle Taylor
DATE: Tuesday 7 March 2023 – 6.30pm-8.30pm AEST
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
We cannot speak about poetry without first speaking about class. Upwards of 40% of Australians identify as working class and yet most of our written art focuses on the experiences of the middle and wealthy classes. How do we write ourselves into the narrative? How do we formulate poetry that explores and disrupts working class identity?
This workshop will look at the transition between spoken word and poetry that wants to be published. It will look at the delicate bridge between the two forms and ask how we might use performance poetics on the page. Participants will look at the idea of Fibonacci Poem, read works from multiple sources, and begin to understand their place and power within culture.
Come prepared to write, to deconstruct and to build something beautiful.
Outcome:
Write poetry that explores and disrupts working class identity.
Discover how to use performance poetics on the page.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
All poets, from page to stage to spoken word.
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession ($30) to full ($40) to generous supporter ($50, i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Joelle Taylor is a poet and novelist whose latest poetry collection C+NTO & Othered Poems looks at working class butch friendships. She won the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, and the Polari Best LGBT Book Prize, as well as Spoken Word Artist of the Year 2022.
The Margins Are What Holds the Page Together
A workshop with Joelle Taylor
DATE: Tuesday 7 March 2023 – 6.30pm-8.30pm AEST
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
We cannot speak about poetry without first speaking about class. Upwards of 40% of Australians identify as working class and yet most of our written art focuses on the experiences of the middle and wealthy classes. How do we write ourselves into the narrative? How do we formulate poetry that explores and disrupts working class identity?
This workshop will look at the transition between spoken word and poetry that wants to be published. It will look at the delicate bridge between the two forms and ask how we might use performance poetics on the page. Participants will look at the idea of Fibonacci Poem, read works from multiple sources, and begin to understand their place and power within culture.
Come prepared to write, to deconstruct and to build something beautiful.
Outcome:
Write poetry that explores and disrupts working class identity.
Discover how to use performance poetics on the page.
What you need to participate:
Zoom and a reliable Internet connection
This workshop is suitable for:
All poets, from page to stage to spoken word.
Ticketing:
Tickets are priced on a sliding scale, from concession ($30) to full ($40) to generous supporter ($50, i.e. subsidise a concession ticket by choosing to pay a bit extra).
One free ticket is reserved for a person experiencing financial hardship — please get in touch.
Upon booking, you will receive email confirmation and, closer to the workshop, further instructions and a Zoom link.
About your facilitator:
Joelle Taylor is a poet and novelist whose latest poetry collection C+NTO & Othered Poems looks at working class butch friendships. She won the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, and the Polari Best LGBT Book Prize, as well as Spoken Word Artist of the Year 2022.