Cromer Artspace on the Prom

To mark autumn and the final session of the year, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore endings, how we conclude a poem and how we redraft & ‘finish’ our work.

To mark the start of the new year, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore change, surprise and newness in poems.

To coincide with an empty gallery, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore the blank page: how we can fill it, how we can use space in our poems, how we can deploy line breaks to convey meaning and feeling.

To coincide with March, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore marching on: how poetry helps us persist, advance, protest and keep going.

To coincide with an exhibition of works made in memory of artist Derek Greaves, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore memory, memories and the art of memorialising in poetry.

Through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore the poem as a map: how poetry can help us navigate our internal and external worlds and how we can use places, numbers and grids in poetry.

To coincide with printmaker and painter Ivy Smith’s exhibition exploring the seaside, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore coast in our poetry: how we write about the coast, coasting and drifting.

In this day-long poetry retreat at Cromer Artspace, bring along poems in progress and learn tools and techniques to help you re-see and redraft your writing. The day will consist of group discussions of poems, writing exercises and there will be opportunities to read aloud your work and receive both peer and tutor feedback.

To coincide with a photography exhibition, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore imagery, metaphors and showing not telling in our poetry.

To coincide with an exhibition of textiles, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore tactility in poems: how we write the sense of touch, how we write about what touches us, how we touch and move a reader.

To coincide with an exhibition linked to Manchester, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore how we write about the city: how we can reflect its scale, energy and diversity in the poems we write about it.

To coincide with the festive season, through a series of writing exercises and group discussions of poems, in this interactive writing workshop we’ll explore poetry about the family and festivities.