Bodies of Work: Writing Poems (13–17 years)
Do you love to draw and write? Are you looking for creative ways to explore your feelings?
In this course, Lewis Buxton will show you how to make big abstract emotions specific and tangible. Through a mixture of drawing and writing you will learn how to centre emotions in the body, craft metaphors, write freely and without inhibition and finally read two poems and use them as a basis to write a poem from your own feelings and experiences. Along the way, you’ll also become a more thoughtful, skilled reader of poetry — deepening your understanding of both your own work and the words of others.
The key thing to take away from this course is that you and your experience of the world is important and worth writing about.
About Lewis Buxton
Born in 1993, Lewis Buxton is a poet, performer and arts producer. He has won the Winchester Poetry Prize, received the UEA Literary Festival Bursary and is the Co-Director of TOAST. He has led workshops for the National Centre for Writing, The Poetry Society, First Story and in over 100 schools in the UK. His first collection Boy in Various Poses was published by Nine Arches Press in 2021. He lives in Norfolk.
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