Holding the Earth: Writing from an Open Heart
The Liberation Centre, 2 Beehive Place, London SW9 7QR, United Kingdom
About this Event
This poetry workshop facilitated by Anne Enith Cooper will be an opportunity to explore our feelings about, and relationship to, our home — the earth — and express our hopes and fears for the future. In a sense the earth holds us, providing everything we eat, everything we wear, everything we use, metals and minerals come from the earth, and of course the damaging fossil fuels and the raw material for plastics. How can we hold the earth?
We live in a tortured world marred by collective trauma; wars, inequality, injustice, poverty and the climate emergency, and yet we can and do hold hope and we can create. Our stories, poems, songs, can be part of forging a sustainable future.
The workshop uses exercises designed to help you write more freely, with playfulness and curiosity. Workshops take place in a safe and supported space with ground rules established collectively. It will be a journey of discovery. Please bring something to write with and write on.
This workshop is free but please register to attend.
Anne Enith Cooper with The Way of Words
Anne Enith Cooper is a poet, writer and activist. She is the Founder of The Way of Words, author of the poetry pamphlet Touched, editor of three anthologies of creative writing and formerly a poetry editor at the XR Rebel Library. She has created and delivered writing workshops and projects in the community for 20 years. She is a member of National Association of Writers in Education, Poets for the Planet and Save Cressingham. Her poem Sicilian Salad in the Anthropocene was longlisted for the 2024 Live Canon International Poetry Prize. Her work has also been published by Proletarian Poetry, The Loose Muse Anthologies and No Planet B. She has performed in New York and London and is currently taking an MA in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School, London.
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