September Writing Day
Dear poet,
Just to let you that there will be a Writing Day this Saturday. 10.15-4pm, morning at the Premier Inn, corner of Angel Street and Bank Street; and afternoon (half the group) at Bank Street.
Please bring a poem (and ten copies) for the afternoon workshop – or better still write one up to discuss from the morning session.
Please phone (0114 3463037) or email if you need more details.
It’s not essential, but would be appreciated if you could let us know if you’re planning to attend.
Best wishes,
Peter & Ann
p.s. Don't forget our Lunch Poems feature...
Sheffield is not Manhattan. Except one Saturday each month.
“Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, co-existence and depth, while never forgetting to eat Lunch his favorite meal. . .”
– Frank O’Hara wrote this for the cover of his 1964 City Lights collection, Lunch Poems.
We’d very much like to feature your poems started on Writing Days in the morning session.
Send in examples, including a first draft if possible, however scrawly and we'll post them on our website. We can scan them in. Let us know particularly if they were written up over the lunch break, and discussed in the afternoon workshop – and if they’ve since been published or won prizes. Though all they really need is to have been written at a Writing Day.
The Poetry Business receives financial assistance from Arts Council England.
