The Future at your Fingertips

Poetry writing workshop with Graham Fawcett

Location: Dorset

Dates & Times:
Saturday 29 November
10.30-4.30pm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
£5; £3 concessions

Bournemouth Arts Development and Bournemouth Libraries present - A poetry writing day with Graham Fawcett (The Poetry School) for readers and writers of poetry, exploring how we bring ideals and ambitions to life through language.
at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum Bournemouth

Mary Shelley’s* forward-looking Frankenstein decided that for him the ideal creative project to end all ideal creative projects would be to create a human being.

Is that very different from our own writing projects? Can Mary Shelley’s story be compared with our ideal projects of creating our own poems?
If so, then are we and Frankenstein alike somehow reaching into the future – perhaps especially into the future of the next five minutes of our lives – in order to make the present more ideal, more worth living? Can we change The Future, or just our own future, by writing?

And then, have you ever thought how much of each day you spend living in the future anyway?

In The Future At Your Fingertips, we will create a bridge between the Bournemouth Big Read of *Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and the National Year of Reading December theme, Writing the Future, by using published poems and our own writing ideas on the day to deepen our understanding of what the future is telling us and how we can answer it.

To Book: email: artsdevelopment@bournemouthlibraries.org.uk
01202 451805

‘Graham creates a ‘democratic space’ in which anyone present can contribute thoughts about the poems and the poet’s ideas.’ Workshop participant.
www.grahamfawcett.co.uk
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