The Archive of Remembering and Forgetting with Sara M Saleh

Thursday 8 August 10am — 1pm

Byron Community Centre, 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay NSW 2481
$120 - General | $100 - Byron Writers Festival Members & Concessions

In this poetry workshop, we’ll look at contexts of intergenerational trauma and healing as inheritance, and the way in which both pain and survivorship can sharpen our senses and open/close us to certain detail. In this workshop we will explore the stark and different ways poets move through the surreal and mundane to explore memory and loss. We will collectively deconstruct and construct language, literary technique, and spatial and temporal form, to show the shifting, spectral nature of memory. Finally, participants will write to prompts where the poem, and the self, is scattered, gathered and regathered – in tangible and unexpected ways.

This workshop is a part of the Byron Writers Festival 2024 and is designed as an 18+ event. Any questions please get in touch with the office on 02 6685 1155 or tickets@byronwritersfestival.com