Writing Poetry about Place: Poetry Writing Workshop with Helen Bowell

As part of our new project, Raising Voices, MK Lit Fest are running three workshops in centre:mk this summer for anyone aged 16+ wanting to write about the city.

In this workshop, poet Helen Bowell will lead you through a number of writing activities to help you write poems about places in Milton Keynes. You’ll think about the distant and not-so-distant histories of the places you walk past every day, consider your place in the city, and find poetry in the most unexpected places.

This two hour workshop will include writing exercises and prompts, and you will have opportunities after the event to submit writing that it has inspired to MK Lit Fest’s Raising Voices Project, which is developing an online interactive audio-visual map of people’s responses to and relationships with particular locations across our home city.

This event is free but pre-booking is required.