Online Workshop: Poetic Landscapes: Writing Place in Poetry
Date:
With:
Evelyn Araluen
Rating:
ALL
Summary:
To write a landscape is to enter into relations of place, language, and perception. Everything we represent is part of an ecology: the point is not to erase the self from poetry, but to show reverence, respect, and reciprocity for the land you stand on, and write of. In this session, we will explore how speaking of a place should be prefaced by speaking to, by writing poems of environmental relation.
Details
You will learn:
How to identify the Self and the Place when engaging with a landscape
Unpacking the difference between what you bring to a landscape, what it provides to you, and what you wish to say about that relationship
The fundamentals of nature writing, and background for its history in poetry
Tips, tricks, and planning structures for how to construct a poem about place
- How to respond to other representations of place through dialogue and workshopping
About Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland literary journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation. Evelyn’s debut is Dropbear.
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Venue:
Australia
Contact:
Phone: 03 90947840
Email: [email protected]