October 26: Poetry Workshop with Yvonne Blomer
Poetry: Language and Form
Join Kalamalka Press Writer-in-Residence Yvonne Blomer for a three-hour workshop on writing poetry with a focus on pushing language, playing with metaphor and using forms such as pantoums and sonnets.The class will involve a lot of writing, and reading as well as discussions on poetic devices, sample poems, how poetry works, language and sharing of written work.Bring pen and paper (or a laptop) and a favourite poem (not your own) as well as a small object from home.
- Saturday, October 26th
- 10am-1pm
- Caetani House Library
- $75.00 per student
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Yvonne Blomer is a writer, mentor and teacher of poetry and memoir who served as Victoria, BC’s poet laureate from 2015-2018.In 2018 she also served as Writer in Residence at the Robert Bateman Centre creating an ekphrastic poetry chapbook in response to Bateman’s paintings titled Ravine, Mouse, a Bird’s Beak(Nose in Book Publishing, 2018).In 2017 Yvonne edited the anthology Refugium: Poems for the Pacific(Caitlin Press) with poets responding to their connection to the Pacific from the west coast of North America, and as far away as Japan and New Zealand.She is currently editing a second in a three-book series on water, titled Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds, due with Caitlin Press in 2020.Recent publications also include Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpurand As if a Raven (both with Palimpsest Press). www.yvonneblomer.com.
Where: The Caetani House Library
Located at the front of the Caetani House.
How to register: online!
**Please only register ONCE**.If you experience difficulties, call the Caetani office at 250-275-1525.Registration policy: (please note) registering online does not guarantee a space in the class unless payment is received. You must fill out the online registration form, and the system will place unpaid registrations on a waitlist, and will move you further down the list as paid registrations are received. We use secure Paypal for non-profits or you can choose to be invoiced another way. You do not need a Paypal account to pay by credit card online, and we can also take credit card payments over the phone. Please call the office at 250-275-1525 as soon a possible during our regular office hours if you wish to make an alternate form of payment to ensure your registration.