Beyond the Page - A Poetry Workshop

Do you find it hard to put your feelings into words? Are you struggling to find ideas? Has the muse left you and inspiration fled? Are you stuck in a rut with your writing — revisiting the same metaphors and line breaks again and again?

It’s time to neurohack your writing and get out of your poetry slump!

In this two hour workshop with Indrani Perera, author of pas de deux and editor of the Pocketry Almanack, you’ll learn how to get out of your head and creep into the cracks by exploring the spaces in between. 

Through exercises and writing prompts you will:

• use movement and drawing as part of your writing practice and to access different parts of the brain. 
• write poems from different points of view, including insects and inanimate objects.
• write using senses other than sight — especially those of sound and hearing.

Bring your child-like self, a sense of adventure and a willingness to play!

PROUDLY part of Sonic Poetry Festival 2024: poetry that sounds like all of us.

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Your Facilitator: Indrani Perera is a Sri Lankan/German/Australian poet and author of the poetry collections 'pas de deux' and 'defenestration'. Her poems have been widely anthologised and appear in Australian and international journals including Axon, Cordite, Eye to the Telescope, hākārā, Science Write Now and The Crow. She has also been shortlisted for major Australian poetry awards including the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. Indrani has been a featured poet for Girls on Key, the Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival and the Perth Poetry Festival. Find her at www.indraniperera.com