Get Creative! CULTIVATE PROGRAMME: POETRY

Explore the wellbeing benefits of poetry

POETRY – What is poetry? How can you bring poetry into your life? What poets do you like and why?

Let’s start writing poetry and for those who are already writing poetry explore new ways to write. Lots of interactive and fun activities to get you writing and find your voice.

After completing this workshop you should be able to:
Understand the difference between poetry and prose
Compare different poetic forms from the past to present
Find ways to inspire your poetry
Summarise some key elements within poetry including rhythm, rhyme, metre, tone, syntax etc
Explore writing poetry yourself
Experiment with structure, form and subject matter
Gain confidence in developing your poetic voice
Take part in a writing community to share you poetry and discuss poetry
Explore different ways to share your work
Keep a creative notebook
Know where to find opportunities to access and share poetry
Develop your critical skills by creating a reading list

About the workshop series

Our ESF Get Creative! Cultivate Programme workshops are open to everybody – no dress code, no qualifications. We strongly believe everybody is creative, everybody ‘writes’. Writing is what you think, say, see, touch, feel and do – you just need to choose how to express it. These workshops will be fun, engaging and accessible – valuing everyday creativity.
The focus will be on exploring ways to express yourself and find your voice, where your creativity is also part of your wellbeing. There will be opportunities to explore poetry, journaling, haiku, scriptwriting, blogging/vlogging, oral and written storytelling, novel writing and biography.