The Surreal Menagerie: A Poetry Writing Workshop

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Join us at Farleys for a fun, inspiring poetry workshop with Derek Adams.

Whether you are new to writing poetry, or a seasoned poet looking for something to enhance and energise your writing, come explore this exciting, creative medium with Derek Adams, a highly experienced surrealist poet and instructor.

'We're frightened that somebody might think that we are also animals, which we are' … Leonora Carrington

Animal imagery, imaginary animals, alter egos, chimeras, familiars, symbiotic and symbolic, the surrealist loved to use animals in their works.  We will look at words and images where surrealists embrace the animal and follow their example to write our own surreal menagerie of fantastical creatures.  Using a variety of magical exercises we will transform, mutate, and metamorphose linguistic fabulations that conjure into existence the animals from our imagination and lurking within ourselves!

All you need is a pen, notebook, your eyes and your imagination!