Tue 03 Mar
|Treadwell's Books
Writing Rites, Enacting Poetry
A poetry writing workshop with Nia Davies and Siofra McSherry, working with ritual and embodied mystical states
Time & Location
03 Mar 2020, 13:00 – 16:21
Treadwell's Books, 33 Store St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7BS, UK
About The Event
Write your own rites of spring. Join poets Nia Davies and Síofra McSherry for a day of creative writing and activity, exploring the relationship between ritual and poetry. It will unpack the ways in which ceremonial techniques can open gateways in the creative process. Participants will learn how rituals are structured and how to apply ritual-based approaches to writing. Get ready to experience embodiment and intention; group activities include working with thresholds, gesture and material objects. Through practical exercises participants are supported in producing new poetry and artistic acts. For those with an established personal ritual practice, the workshop will be of help in working with poetry as a means to create transformative rituals.
The workshop is suitable for both beginner and experienced poets.
Nia Davies is poet, performer and literary curator. She is currently researching and writing poetry and ritual at the University of Salford. Her first book-length collection of poems All fours (Bloodaxe…