If you happen to be a Sydney person, I’ll be running an all day workshop at Writing NSW on Saturday, 2nd September, 10am – 4pm. It’s a workshop called The Everyday Epic; I remember thinking as lot about during the covid lockdowns, when everything seemed both epic, world changing and relentlessly bound in the everyday. Don’t worry I won’t be talking about covid at all…I just remember the workshop ticking around in my head in the strange time.
I have a bit of a chat about the workshop and other things in the Writers on Writing section of the Writing NSW site if you’re interested.
The Everyday Epic
This world is full of epic, otherworldly moments: clouds shifting, the hunt for new earrings, people changing car tyres. These everyday moments give poetry its texture and provide poets with an endless seam of inspiration for their writing.
In this poetry workshop, Rico Craig will guide you to sift through the seemingly mundane, searching for the experiences you can expand to epic significance. You will bring your poetic vision to bear on the ordinary and look at the way your own inclination toward the poetic can be used to expand a reader’s perception of the worlds we share in our poetry.
You can get a ticket at the Writing NSW site.
We’ll look at work from poets like Kayo Chingonyi, Kiki Petrosino, Natalie Harkin, Aracelis Girmay, Ross Gay and Dan Hogan. All who have their own special ways of discovering the epic in the everyday. I’ll also talk a little about how my recent collection Nekhau works to bring together the everyday and the epic.
Me doing a weird hand thing I do in workshops
Rico Craig 