Playing around with Poetry
Writing workshop led by Chris Burleigh, 12.00 – 1.00pm Sunday 18th May at Southern Maltings.
In this relaxed and friendly workshop, poet Chris Burleigh invites you to try your hand at writing verse based on a familiar story. This will be a fun workshop for anyone, age 11 upwards – no poetry writing experience necessary, just a willingness to play with words!
Inspiration comes from one of Ware’s literary claims to fame: The Diverting History of John Gilpin, by Hertfordshire poet William Cowper, which tells the tale in comic verse of hapless John Gilpin, who is carried to Ware by his runaway horse when he is supposed to be celebrating his wedding anniversary in Edmonton.
If you like what you produce in the workshop, you might read it at the Poetry Open Mic which follows at 1.00pm!
