10 Ways Into Poetry with Felicity Plunkett

Dates:
7-8:30pm, Wednesday 31 August 2022

Address:
Online via Zoom

Cost: $10 recommended donation

Event type(s):
Workshop, Online

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There’s no one way into reading and writing poetry. In this workshop, your guide Felicity Plunkett will suggest ten. Because, as Rita Dove writes, ‘poetry is language at its most distilled and powerful’, it can feel thrilling, intimidating – or both – to begin. In his poem ‘To the reader’ Rowan Ricardo Phillips describes feeling something ‘tighten and crack like frightened wings on fire’ when we read and write poetry, while Tracy K. Smith describes entering a poem ‘like a stranger in somebody else’s home’.

Poet

Felicity Plunkett

Felicity is a poet and critic. Her books are A Kinder Sea (UQP), Vanishing Point (UQP) and the chapbook Seastrands (Vagabond). Felicity was University of Queensland Press Poetry Editor for a decade and edited Thirty Australian Poets (UQP). She has a PhD from Sydney University and is a widely-published reviewer and essayist. Felicity works as an editor and mentor developing other writers’ work, as well as with students and teachers. Her latest essay ‘Plath Traps’ is published by Sydney Review of Books.