Giving Place a Voice: Poetry Workshop with Elizabeth Lewis Williams
Join Elizabeth Lewis Williams for a relaxed poetry workshop where you will experiment with giving place a voice in your poetry.
‘Who’s this moving alive over the moor?’
How do you give a place a voice? In this relaxed poetry workshop, you will consider the spirit of place and how the landscapes and settlements deeply etched in our minds can be given a voice to speak. How might new voices harness poetry to represent these places anew?
Together, we’ll analyse extracts of different examples of poems and prose texts that give place a voice, and explore engaging short writing exercises that encourage us to respond to visual and audio cues from the world around us. This session is a chance to write and reflect together, in a supportive environment.
Part of City of Literature weekend 2024
City of Literature is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival and National Centre for Writing presentation, programmed by the National Centre for Writing.
Elizabeth Lewis Williams is a Norwich-based poet and teacher. She is an advocate for the importance of writing and storytelling in education. After many years spent teaching in schools, she completed an MA, followed by a PhD, in Creative Writing at the UEA. Her first book, Deception Island, gave rise to an immersive installation in a replica Antarctic hut. It was shortlisted for East Anglian book of the year in 2022. Her second book, Erebus, was published in October 2022. She is currently working on a book of creative non-fiction about ways of journeying to the Antarctic.
