Tender: Writing The Body with Bron Bateman

The body is another country, a foreign or known landscape. The body holds the score. In this workshop we will explore the body through embodied poems about love, loss, desire, passion and grief. We will write what we know and what we imagine: of ourselves and others. Take all the history you have experienced and turn it into moving and evocative poems about a life lived in the wellspring of your body. Poems to make you soar and sing, or tumble and grieve. Writing your stories. Writing the world. Writing your body. 

About the Presenter

Bron Bateman is an award winning queer, crip poet, editor and educator. She has had three collections of poetry published: "People from bones" (Ragged Raven Press 2002), "Of Memory and Furniture",which was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry in 2021 (Fremantle Press 2020) and "Blue Wren" (Fremantle Press, 2022). She has been published in anthologies and journals such as Westerly, Southerly, Cordite and Australian Poetry Journal. Her fourth collection, "Love Like This Isn't Harmless" is forthcoming with Fremantle Press in 2025.

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