Craft and Community with Fiona Theokritoff and Jan Norton
Nottingham Central Library are very proud to present the pilot for the Nottingham Poetry Society: Poetry School, a monthly program of poetry and poetics.
Join us to hear readings from poets Fiona Theokrifoff and Jan Norton, followed by a workshop on craft and community.
Jan and Fiona are experienced teachers, and have worked with many different groups between them. In this session, they will start by reading some of their work. For the writing workshop, the group will divide in two so that everyone has the opportunity to participate in two writing sessions. The afternoon will finish with some more poems and an opportunity to browse their Five Leaves pamphlets.
Date: Date TBC
Time: 3.30pm, start 4.00pm to 6pm
Tickets: Reserve a spot today to save disappointment, and pay on the door on the evening (£4 on the door for non-members, Nottingham Poetry Society members free). Payments will be taken by NPS team, not library staff.
Fiona Theokritoff and Jan Norton are both Five Leaves poets, each having a pamphlet on their New Poetry list. Jan and Fiona also both started their poetry journey later in life, after careers in publishing and teaching respectively.
Jan’s pamphlet Relief Map traces her journey from a working-class Welsh Valleys childhood to where she finds herself on the map now. Fiona’s pamphlet New Uses for a Wand tracks how our world has taken the old energy of magic and alchemy, and transformed it through inspiration, conflict and necessity into today’s energy of science and technology. They each explore the pain of change and growth, and how humans will always struggle to love whatever the cost.
