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Closer look at Paston writing workshops
Further details are now available of the writing workshops being held over the next three months at Paston in North Norfolk (see item below). They are held at the same time as art workshops and are as follows:
• Sunday 11th May, 10am – 4 pm, led by Rupert
Mallin
Textures. Combining words, images and textures using The Paston
Letters - texts, symbols and imagery - brought together in print.
The workshop will include n exploration of form in poetry and
visual art.
• Saturday 31st May, 10 am – 4 pm, led by Caroline
Gilfillan
Finding Form. In this workshop we’ll try our hand at some poetic
forms – ghazals, pantoums and terza rima – while responding to
the rich source material in the Paston Letters, and in the church
itself. Suitable for beginners or those who’ve already written
before. All that’s needed is a notebook, a pen or pencil, and a
curious mind.
• Sunday 29th June, 10 am – 4 pm, led by Caroline
Gilfillan
Poems-in-Progress: revising and developing your work. This
workshop will give you a wonderful opportunity to share and get
detailed feedback on your poetry. Please bring poems developed
during the course of the project for discussion. At least one of
these should be directly inspired by the Paston project, and a
possible candidate for inclusion in the book, but you can also
bring other work in progress, which we’ll discuss if time allows.
• Wednesday 23rd July, 10 am – 4 pm, led by Caroline
Gilfillan
Making the Book. In this workshop we’ll decide on the order in
which pieces should appear in the limited edition book, and how
these can be integrated with the visual artwork produced during
the course of the project. You may also have the chance to print
your own work.
An afternoon with the Bishop
Well, not exactly with the Bishop of Norwich, but in his garden. Rupert, Lisa and Tonia transported the Poetry Vending Machine to the Bishop's Garden on the afternoon of Sunday, 24 June and set up an InPrint stall offering stunning cards and of course the famous vending machine boxes. They were joined later by Tim. Also present: Lisa's family, Tonia's daughter and Tim's wife - so a real family occasion. It was all part of an Afternoon of World Literature organised by the New Writing Partnership, based in Norwich. Other stalls were set up on the lawns, and there were readings in the main tent. A rather grey-weather day transformed by the usual InPrint excitement.