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Reading & Writing Poetry in a Time of Climate Change

Local Word Writers Festival

Local Word Writers Festival is an annual two-day event of local writers presenting workshops, presentations and author in-conversations for writers and readers.

This workshop will explore the work of several poets who write about the planet in this new geological age and how humans, as part of a complex system, have an impact on it.

Those attending will also be taken through some exercises to create their own eco-poetry and each attendee will receive a complimentary copy of John’s latest poetry pamphlet, This Luminous Earth (Pocket Poets/2023).

John Bartlett is the author of ten books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including The Arms of Men (Melbourne Poets Union/2019) and Awake at 3am (Ginninderra Press/2020). He was the winner of the 2020 Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize and Highly Commended in the 2021 Mundaring Poetry Competition. 

*Up to 12 participants  |  *Suitable for to anyone concerned about eco-poetics and the environment with some or little experience of writing.

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