Writing Workshop - Kit Kelen, Take your words for a Walk (The Peripatetic Mode)

Poetry is both speech and written word. The distinction has been divisive in recent times, but the best poetry on paper does have a pulse and makes use of the breath. Likewise the best spoken word will fare beautifully on paper, where the head has more time to take it in. Poetry works when it takes words where they haven’t been, somewhere interesting and unexpected.

One of Kit’s several modes of gathering materials for the making of poems is writing while walking. Observations collected on the way help to situate your work in a here and now. Writing while walking is also an infallible cure for so-called writer’s block because there is always something to observe, through your senses! The peripatetic mode brings poetry production out of the closet and into the public domain, In this workshop, we will go somewhere on foot to gather lines or ideas, and then return to base, to share them, and to see if there aren’t some poems to be made out of the materials we’ve found.

Friday 10 October 2025 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (UTC+10)
Location: Launceston Library
71 Civic Square, Launceston Tasmania

You may also like the following events from Tasmanian Poetry Festival:

• This Sunday, 5th October, 04:30 am, Tasmanian Poets Reading at Fullers Hobart for TPF 2025 in Hobart
• Next Wednesday, 8th October, 02:30 pm, Alex McKeown, Poetry Writing Workshop - Constraint Based Writing in Launceston
• Next Thursday, 9th October, 12:00 am, Kim Nielsen-Creeley Poetry Writing Workshop - Writing an Interior Monologue in Launceston

Also check out other Arts events in Launceston, Literary Art events in Launceston, Workshops in Launceston.