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....In this afternoon walk and talk we will resist stasis and seclusion. Instead we’ll discuss movement, conversation, collaboration and whanaungatanga and the particular charge these ideas have for women, indigenous and minority writers. We will brainstorm acts of defiance on the page or path, create a short collaborative text, and think about radical-writers-who-walk Patricia Grace, Fiona Farrell, J.R Carpenter and Teju Cole. Solvitur Ambulando – It is Solved by Walking
.... Living poet and walker Jon Cotner says, ‘Poetry can wake us, and in the process we create a shared world or the commons.’ And this is what we will do in this workshop. We’ll wander in the commons of El Rancho, stop to write, listen to poetry, languages, inhabit the space, its air and textures. We’ll observe, experiment, play. We’ll generate draft texts as a result of exercises, our motion and the environment, and then we’ll workshop the lines, paragraphs, or fragments into poetic sequences, prose poems, meditations or lyric essays. We’ll consider the connective possibilities, narrative or non-conventional forms, the unfixedness and layers. And you will wander away from this workshop with a new and dynamic piece of work that will surprise, is generative, and travels – much like a walk in new geography without a map or Fitbit or your phone. Come with. ‘The poem is there, it’s right there, it’s always there, and it’s waiting, actually waiting for us.’ (CAConrad) |
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Vana Manasiadis | Βάνα Μανασιάδη was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and she divides her time between Greece and New Zealand. As co-editor of the Seraph Press ‘Poetry in Translation Series’, she edited and translated from the Greek the first bilingual volume Ναυάγια/Καταφύγια: Shipwrecks/Shelters (Seraph Press, 2016). Her poetry has been widely published including in Jacket2 (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2017), and Essential New Zealand Poems (Penguin Random House NZ, 2014), and she is the author of acclaimed verse biography /poetry collection Ithaca Island Bay Leaves: A mythistorima (Seraph Press, 2009). |