A Music Made of Visual Thoughts - Sonics in poetry -  a workshop.

(part of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival online programme)

Join poet Anna Saunders for a workshop on sonics in poetry.

In it, you will explore how careful use of sonic effects can inform and empower your poems.

You will focus on rhythm, assonance, alliteration, colloquial expressions, and even the evocative power of silence (through careful use of line breaks, breath, and pauses).

You will explore ways of listening and attuning your ear to the sound of your poems. You will look at the work of poets such as Dylan Thomas, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Kaveh Akbar, and Liz Berry for inspiration. There will also be writing tasks in class to generate new drafts.

Expect to come away with poems that sing...

“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

Anna Saunders is the author of Communion, (Wild Conversations Press), Struck, (Pindrop Press) Kissing the She Bear, (Wild Conversations Press), Burne Jones and the Fox, Ghosting for Beginners, Feverfew, The Prohibition of Touch, Eurydice in the Ruined House (all from Indigo Dreams).