Poetry Workshop
This event on 30th January 2011 has past.
Contact: joharbooks@aol.com
"Cheese and chairs" are the subject of this poetry workshop.
The free workshop, led by local poets Jo Harding and Theresa Robson, is part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Landscape Stories Project, a community heritage project aimed at understanding and celebrating the Bowland landscape by discovering more about the people and rural industries that have helped to shape it.
Using group and individual writing exercises, participants will have the opportunity to write a completed poem or first draft, with a view to possible publication and public reading later in the year.
Jo Harding said: “Cheese and chairs might seem an unlikely combination, but they are an integral part of Ribble Valley’s history, heritage and culture, particularly in Chipping, which can boast the award-winning Leagram Organic Dairy and Britain’s oldest chair manufacturer, Berry’s, which closed last year after 160 years of business.
“Local poets are invited to celebrate these two industries that have contributed so much to Ribble Valley in a practical poetry workshop that will look at how cheese and chairs have been brought alive by published writers, often in surprising ways.”
The workshop is open to writers of any level and is particularly suitable for beginners.
Entry: Free
Time: 1pm to 4pm
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