June 15 & 16, 2024
10:00am to 4:00pm
Summer retreat with Evelyn Lau

What Lies Beneath: A Workshopping Weekend
Facilitated by Award-Winning Poet, Evelyn Lau

We are delighted that Evelyn Lau will facilitate Planet Earth Poetry’s 2024 Summer Retreat!

What lurks beneath the surface of our poems? What needs to be brought to the light? Are we holding back words, or are the poems more effective with hard truths half-buried, glanced at aslant? 

What?
This workshop-based retreat offers participants the opportunity to dive deep into a selection of their own work, and receive feedback from an esteemed poet. Participants will be given a safe space to explore personal stories behind their work, and to find a balance between powerful understatement and overpowering the reader. Writing exercises will also be offered, as well as a group Q&A session with the instructor.

Who?
Evelyn Lau, Vancouver’s third Poet Laureate poetry, has received the Milton Acorn Award, the Pat Lowther Award, a National Magazine Award, and the Fred Cogswell Award, and has also been shortlisted for the Governor-General Award, a BC Book Prize, and the Vancouver Book Award. Her work has appeared in over a hundred journals, and chosen multiple times for the Best Canadian Poetry anthology series. She leads poetry workshops at SFU Continuing Studies and around the Lower Mainland.

Where?
A comfortable private home in the Gorge area.
Address and directions will be sent to registrants.

When?
Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th June: 10am—4pm

Delicious home-made snacks and tea and coffee provided.
Please bring your own lunch, and your own mug.

Registration:
$225.00 per person, with a maximum of 12 participants
Planet Earth Poetry offers two fully funded Indigenous bursaries, and four sliding scale seats (2 seats @125 & 2 seats @175)
Please let Nancy Issenman know when you register.


To register, contact Nancy Issenman (issenman@shaw.ca)
Subject line: PEP 2024 poetry retreat.
Do not send payment until you are registered with Nancy.
Nancy will then send you Planet Earth Poetry’s e-transfer details.

Planet Earth Poetry’s cancellation policy:
No refunds after Mon. June 3, 2024.

 
SUBMITTING YOUR WORK:
Upon registering for this weekend, you’ll be invited to submit a maximum of four original poems to Evelyn Lau. Poems for workshopping can be on any subject, maximum of two pages per poem.  They can be recent work, or older drafts.
Poems MUST be submitted AT LEAST ONE WEEK PRIOR to the weekend (with a hard deadline of  June 8, 2024). Please DO NOT submit until registration is complete, and you’ve been sent Evelyn Lau’s email. Thanks so much!