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In connexion with the exhibition “Earth Fire Iron: Alan Evans and the New Iron Age, 1980-2025” at The Museum in the Park, Stroud, and to mark National Poetry Day, there will be a poetry workshop with Philip Rush in the pavilion from 2 pm till 4.30 on Thursday 2nd October.
We will look at a selection of poems, each of which uses imagery from blacksmithing in a distinctive way. We will read the poems carefully and tease out meanings and poetic devices. As a result we may be prompted to begin poems of our own. Everyone will be asked to bring some sort of notebook so that they can jot down ideas and phrases which may occur to them.
Although the workshop will not include the opportunity for those attending to read new poems to the group, everyone will be able to send them to an online forum where the poems can be read and comments on them can be shared. Anyone who has a poem in a good state by Saturday 4th is invited to present their poem at a reading taking place at The Museum that afternoon.
Your tutor: Philip Rush
Philip Rush is a retired English teacher who lives in Stroud. He oversees 'Yew Tree Press of Stroud’ which publishes small-run pamphlets from local and not-so-local poets. His own poetry has been published most recently by The Garlic Press in his book, Camera Obscura. He plays the fiddle enthusiastically.