Ann M Carson: Poetry Workshop
Join us for our in-person monthly meeting at Ross House.
This month will have a focus on poetry, join poet Ann M Carson who will help you perfect your poetry writing skills in time to pen an entry to the Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize.
The ‘narrative’ dimensions of a poem are its unfolding in time, and the ‘lyric’ are the depth charges which allow a reader to take time, out of time, to dwell in the lyric moment. Anne writes her own work at the intersection of these two principal poetic modes and will draw from her own practice of poetic biography, reading from a work in progress George Sand: a poetic auto/biography.
Members are free, non members are welcome, the cost is $20.00.
Speaker: Anne M Carson is a poet, essayist and visual artist whose poetry has been published internationally, and widely in Australia, receiving numerous awards including winning and shortlisting in the Martha Richardson medal, and shortlisting in the 2022 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her work has been broadcast on national and community radio and she has curated a programme of poems on disability on ABC’s Poetica programme. Massaging Himmler: A Poetic Biography of Dr Felix Kersten (Hybrid), and Two Green Parrots (Ginnindera Press) were published in 2019. The Detective’s Chair is forthcoming (Liquid Amber Press 2023). She has initiated a number of poetry-led social justice projects, including The River Project Soiree, fundraiser for the RiverKeepers and a greeting card, fundraiser for the Carbon Positive Charity. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at RMIT, writing a poetic biography of George Sand.
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