Day of Poetry: A Full Day of Writing + Eating + Drinking + A Free Book !

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Hi there ✨

Whoever you are, you're warmly invited to join us for a full-day poetry workshop ✍️ with food & drink 🍴☕🍷, a pub quiz 🧠, and plenty of space to say something true, something strange, something yours 🌿

Together, we'll be writing poetry, one of the oldest, strangest, and most surprisingly honest ways we have of telling the truth about being alive.

From Ted Hughes to Sylvia Plath, to Sonia Sanchez, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stanley Kunitz, Claudia Rankine and Ocean Vuong, poetry keeps showing up, and keeps telling the truth.

This day isn't just about reading or analysing those poets (though we'll do a little of that). We'll also be having our own go at writing new poems, using three ideas as our lens: nature, city life, and the inner self.

By the end of the day, you'll leave with some fresh drafts, images, and lines to take home and develop in your own time.

What do we mean by Day of Poetry? 🤔

We'll be writing through three territories that poets have always returned to:

• Nature - What does the organic world outside us reveal about the world within?
• City life - How do we find language for the crowd, the commute, the stranger on the platform...?
• The inner self - Exploring grief, longing, memory, wonder, what are we carrying, and what happens when we put it into words?

We'll read short extracts from some of the poets named above, then use them as springboards for our own guided writing exercises.

No dogma. No right answers. Just curiosity, attention, and honest language. 🌿

So, what's the plan? 🗓️

• Arrive at Finch's Pub for teas/coffees ☕ and a gentle warm-up writing session ✍️
• Settle into reading, conversation, supported exploration, and lots more writing 💬
• Break for lunch 🥗 at the pub
• Dive back in for an afternoon of deeper writing and creative experiments 🌀

What's included? 🎁

• A full day of poetry workshops & exercises ✨
• Tea or coffee to start ☕
• Lunch at Finch's Pub 🥗
• A drink of your choice in the afternoon 🍻🍷🥤
• A free Penguin mini modern classic book!
• Thoughtful literary handouts 📄

What do you need to bring? 🎒

• Yourself 🙌
• A pen & pad 🖊️📓 (or a laptop 💻 if you prefer)

Our style 🌱

We create a friendly, supportive, and inclusive atmosphere 💜 Everybody is welcome. No experience necessary 🌈

There's no pressure to share or perform in front of the group 🙅 You can take part quietly, actively, or anywhere in between.

If you have any doubts or questions, feel free to text me on 📱 +44 (0) 7534 981 636 and I'll do my best to help.

Warm wishes 🌞,

Sean (A Write & a Pint)