Join Dizraeli for a WordWorks workshop on unpacking and sharing your own truth (including the trickier things about being a human) through spoken word performance.
2pm-4pm
Age guide: 14+
ALSO: Don't miss out on Dizraeli’s performance later in the day!
Poet, producer, firestarter. Songwriter-MC, multi-instrumentalist-raconteur… Dizraeli is a genre of his own. From building ... Read More
Tag: Poetry
15
Jul2021
15
Jul2021
SproutSpoken ventures over to the beautiful surroundings of St Michael The Archangel for what promises to be one of the highlights of the Sprout & About 2021 season. Don’t miss this SuperSonic - featuring a headline set from the inimitable Dizraeli.
Doors open: 6.45pm
Show Start: 7.30pm
Running time: 2 hours 10 minutes ... Read More
15
Jul2021
Join Rebecca Tantony for a WordWorks workshop on the process of developing your writing with one eye on delivering your work.
11am-1pm
Age guide: 14+
ALSO: Rebecca will be performing at SproutSpoken on 11th September. Pop it in your diary - more information to be released soon!
Rebecca is a writer and facilitator driven ... Read More
15
Jul2021
Come spend a Saturday afternoon with the SproutSpoken family - and bring your own family (or friends!)
For the first time, SproutSpoken presents a family-friendly open-mic event. Anyone can share - with the only proviso that material is suitable for children as well as adults. Adults: ever written something with kids ... Read More
29
Jul2021
Join much-loved local poet and publisher Philip Rush on this six-part Dialect course and use the principle of shuhari to learn the art of poetic form.
Shu is learn the rules; ha is break the rules; ri is transcend the rules.
Participants will learn how to write a sonnet as a foundational ... Read More
29
Jul2021
The time comes when you might want to stop skimming the choppy poetry surface and deep dive into one poet’s work. In this guided online workshop series, you’ll be uncovering the craft and intelligence of Jorie Graham’s award-winning poetry. In 6 classes over a full term, you will build up ... Read More
11
Aug2021
We welcome you aboard the 'Fruiting Boaty': a three-hour river cruise on the Flower of Bristol trip boat, to launch Bristol City Poet Caleb Parkin's debut poetry collection, 'This Fruiting Body'. Sunday 17th October, 2-5pm.
The book plunges us into octopus raves and Sega Megadrive oceans, in the company of Saab ... Read More
03
Sep2021
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH 8PM
AT THE LAMB INN, SANDFORD, EX17 4B
£4
Join Poetic Licence for an evening of poetry, at The Lamb Inn at Sandford, hosted by Bard of Exeter, Tim King. Chrissy will be reading from her pamphlet, Frank, published by the Poetry Business Smith Doorstop press in May 2021. Ysella ... Read More
28
Sep2021
The Power of Words
Expect the unexpected @Exeter Cathedral
A free creative writing programme for young people aged 13 – 16
Wednesday 27th October 1.30 – 3.30 and Thursday 28th October 10.30 – 3.30
The Power of Words is inspired by the Anglo-Saxon Riddles in the Exeter Book, the oldest book in the English ... Read More
05
Oct2021
Children and their Parents
‘Heart’s needle, hostage to fortune, freedom’s end.’
How much do we know about our parents? How much do they know about us? In this workshop we’ll read some poems about the hidden worlds of parents and their children, their secret and not-so-secret lives, exposing the joys and pains ... Read More