Join poet Will Burns Autumn Creative Writing Programme, where we will be using poetic interactions with wild places to explore new ways of seeing and understanding the natural world around us.
Using the garden here as inspiration, as well as looking at a broad range of poetic works, we'll be thinking through how we can better commune with places via creativity and imagination.
The Programme will involve 3 sessions of 90 minutes each, and will take place at OmVed Gardens and other nearby green spaces between September and November.
Please bear in mind no prior experience in poetry or creative writing is necessary to join this Group.
Dates:
1 ticket is for all the below sessions. The timings are always 10:30AM - 12PM
28 September
26 October
30 November
Subsidised Tickets:
We would love to encourage young people to join the group. People between 16- 25 can avail of a 50% discount on the programme; please write to us at events@omvedgardens.com with the name of the event and attach your I.D. to avail of the young person discount. Subject to availability.
Refund Policy:
These tickets are refundable up to 10 days before the start of the sessions (18th September) post which they will be non-refundable.
About the facilitator:
Will Burns is a poet and novelist. He first came to prominence in 2014 as a Faber New Poet and has since authored poetry collections ‘Natural Burial Ground’ (Brown Book Group, 2024) and ‘Country Music’ (Offord Road Books, 2020) which won the 2021 Laurel Prize for best first collection, & ‘Germ Songs’ (Rough Trade Books, 2019). He released the album Chalk Hill Blue in 2019, a collaboration with composer Hannah Peel whose music was set to his poems. (Hannah Peel, 2019.) His debut novel, The Paper Lantern (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2021) saw Burns named among The Observer’s Top 10 Debut Novelists of 2021.
