Allographic Workshop: Finding a Voice with Andrea Porter

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Allographic has three forms of live event – “Other Voices”, open mic with featured guests every 4th Sunday of the month; “Allographic presents…”, a loose series of events with bigger names from the spoken word scene, and a burgeoning set of workshops for aspirant poets, storytellers, and other writers and performers.

Attendees of the workshop will get free entry to the Other Voices show that evening if they get up and perform, otherwise you get the concession rate.

Find Your Voice. Fact or fiction and the use of I, you, he, she, they. These can be the choices a poem may offer you. How can your choice of voice and the tone of the poem be used to make a poem something other, something that creates another avenue to explore in your work.

We will read some poems and do some workshop exercises and writing. Bring along a short poem (no more than 20 lines) of your own or by another poet and be prepared to play with the voice, the use of fiction if necessary to explore some other truth. See how these techniques might improve or extend your performance repertoire for an audience or just make a better poem.

Andrea Porter’s collection ‘A Season of Small Insanities’ is published by Salt Publishing. ‘House of the Deaf Man’ a collaboration with the contemporary artist Tom de Freston about Goya’s ‘black paintings’ was published in 2012 by Gatehouse Press. Her pamphlet Bubble (published by Flarestack) was adapted into a play and broadcast on Radio 4 and nominated for a Sony Award. Her poems have been published in many magazines in the UK, Eire, Canada and the USA. She is also a member of Joy of Six poetry group that has performed throughout the UK and in New York. She has been a tutor for the Poetry School and has run creative writing workshops for children, adults and community groups. She helps organise CB1 Poetry, a series of poetry readings in Cambridge.

Find out more about Andrea at http://welikeditbutnotquiteenough.blogspot.com

Find out more about Allographic at: http://www.allographic.co.uk/

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