This writing course, Poetics of Place: Writing New Poetry Wherever You Are with Jazz Money, will be held at Writing NSW in Sydney.

Our lives are a concert of everything we have heard, seen, eaten, felt, danced, sung and yearned for, of every place we have stepped foot and every person we have encountered. These experiences form the infinite wellspring of poetics, of which we are all individual conduits.

In this poetry workshop, Jazz Money will lead poets through a wide range of prompts to create new poetry based in place and memory. With the structure of the workshop based around reading, listening and looking, Jazz will teach you that poems inhabit our memories and we all have the ability to coax them out.

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Expected learning outcomes

Participants will learn:

1. About the poetics of place.
2. How to use place and memory in writing poetry.
3. How to construct and create poetry that marks time.
4. Different ways to overcome writers’ block.
5. About writing without rules or judgement.

Participant requirements

Bring your own pen and paper, or fully charged device.

Please bring along one poem written by someone else to share with the class.

If you have questions about this course, please contact us.

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