# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Craft of Poetry
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 29 Aug, 2026 at 09:30 am – Sat, 29 Aug, 2026 at 12:30 pm
- **Event Description**: In Siobhan Harvey’s workshop, explore poetry’s power to address important issues of our lives, be they personal or political, cultural or communal. We'll consider the role of inspiration, language, music, structure and technique in shaping a poem's meaning and message. We'll also read, examine and reflect on existing poems, and apply our learnings to the development of a poem of our own from draft to completion. For serious and emerging poets, songwriters and short-form aficionados. Books will be for sale. 

 Siobhan Harvey is the author of nine books of poetry and nonfiction including the memoir, What We Remember, What We Forget (OUP 2026) which was a category winner in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books (US) and highly commended in the 2024 Bridport Memoir Award (UK). Presently, she's shortlisted for the Heroine Women's Writing Prize (Aus), and won the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition, 2021 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry, 2019 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems, 2018 Robert Burns Poetry Prize, and 2013 Kathleen Grattan Award. She teaches creative writing at AUT. 

The workshop costs $30 and includes morning tea. Registration required.

The Trust Waikato Building is in Little London Lane, off London Street, Hamilton. The Trust has a sizeable carpark and there is ample parking outside and close by.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/hamilton/the-craft-of-poetry/200030476238108
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, contests, burns-night
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 19

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Hamilton
- **state**: WK
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Trust Waikato
- **lat**: -37.78229
- **long**: 175.2797
- **full address**: Trust Waikato, 4 Little London Lane,Hamilton, New Zealand

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Craft of Poetry being held?
  - **A:** The Craft of Poetry takes place on Sat, 29 Aug, 2026 at 09:30 am to Sat, 29 Aug, 2026 at 12:30 pm at Trust Waikato, 4 Little London Lane,Hamilton, New Zealand.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Craft of Poetry?
  - **A:** The Craft of Poetry is organized by Hamilton Book Month.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** The Craft of Poetry is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Hamilton, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If The Craft of Poetry sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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