On the 8th of March we had the pleasure of listening to award winning poet Luke Kennard talk with us about his writing, and give a reading of his poetry, both of which you may enjoy by watching the videos below:
After this, we lucky MA students took part in a workshop run by Luke, in which he gave us a wealth of interesting tips and tricks, but also, a great exercise to do when writer’s block strikes and your stories aren’t playing ball.
The exercise is a simple prose/ poetry one, and is a fun way of getting back into the creative flow. We were told the beginnings of three sentences, and then given free reign as to how we wanted to finish them off. This workshop was amazing, and the results produced everything from heaving buttocks to dreamlike landscapes. If you want to try the exercise, the beginnings of the sentences are given below, and all you have to do is to complete them three times to form three verses or paragraphs. Whether they relate to each other or not is up to you; but this is an exercise to have fun with.
The beginnings:
When I reached the edge of the desert I saw…
You told me…
It was as if…
Post by Georgia Benjamin
Litmus 2016 