HOW I BROKE UP WITH NARRATIVE AND FOUND MY AVRA KEHDABRA

A Planet Earth Poetry Workshop
with Cornelia hoogland

February 12, 10:30-1:30

WHERE? A comfortable private Victoria home by the Gorge. Directions upon registration.

WHAT? Cornelia writes: “In this workshop I share ways to untangle narrative’s what-happens-next from poetry’s emotional ground, to separate the two, and weave them together again. When we have a story we want to work with, how do we ensure narrative is one of several strategies or conventions we use to write and shape our work? These strategies have helped me and the poets I work with put narrative in its place, so I expect our time together will be a fertile cross-sharing of ideas and experiments!”

About Cornelia

Dressed in Only a Cardigan, She Picks Up Her Tracks in the Snow, (Baseline) and Cosmic Bowling (Guernica), are Cornelia Hoogland’s recent publications. Trailer Park Elegy and Woods Wolf Girl were finalists for Canadian national awards. Hoogland was the 2019 writer-in-residence for the Al Purdy A-Frame and the Whistler Festival. Hoogland lives on unceded Puntledge and K’omox territories on Hornby Island. http://www.corneliahoogland.com/

REGISTRATION: $65.00.

Max 10 participants, full vaccination required. Please mask unless speaking Contact Barbara Pelman barbarapelman@gmail.com Subject line: PEP workshop Hoogland Make out cheques to Planet Earth Poetry, or e-transfer to pepoetry2@gmail.com.

Your cheque or e-transfer will hold your place. Please be aware of PEP’s cancellation policy: no refunds after February 9.

INDIGENOUS BURSARIES

PEP workshops have two bursaries reserved for participants who identify as Indigenous and who register by February 6. Please identify yourself to Barbara Pelman when you register. Please note that bursaries will be given on a first-come first-served basis, and are open to all who identify as Indigenous with no further adjudication.