Content with Form: A Two-part Poetry Workshop with Máighréad Medbh

Is the choice of subject matter or ‘content’ crucial to the effectiveness of a poem? If so, how do we distil experience to find its poetic essence? And then, how do we develop what John Cage called the ‘field of possibilities’ that will make the poem happen in its most appropriate form? In the first session, we will explore how content and form intertwine and alter each other to become a unity. We will look at examples, and participants will be invited to begin their own poem of the moment, which they will write for the second session. The second session will be dedicated to the reading of the poems written in the intervening week. There will be mutual feedback and further discussion.

Please note, this event will take place on Saturday 2nd November and Saturday 9th November, 2:00-4:00pm 

To reserve a place, please ring Balbriggan Library at 01 870 4401 or email  [email protected]