photograph by Mike Keville
RENGA: splicing spontaneity into your writing
with Alan Summers
with Alan Summers
THURSDAY MAY 20th 6.30pm-8.30pm
Mr. B's Emporium of Reading Delights
Mr. B's Emporium of Reading Delights
This event is part of the 2010 Bath Japanese Festival
Renga is first of all, great fun!
It's a type of joint group activity where we all get involved in writing a poem with haikulike verses called 'links'.
It's a type of joint group activity where we all get involved in writing a poem with haikulike verses called 'links'.
Each verse is not so much poetry in the usual sense, but captures snippets of everyday ordinary plain speech and language that we easily forget is just as magical as formal poetry.
It's really easy, and gaining huge popularity all the time: for instance the Bath 1000 Verse Renga (book coming out soon) was so popular with both the public and writers that we actually received more than 1000 verses!
It's really easy, and gaining huge popularity all the time: for instance the Bath 1000 Verse Renga (book coming out soon) was so popular with both the public and writers that we actually received more than 1000 verses!
BBC article weblink:
BBC article: Bristol poet leads giant verse
You don't even have to know what renga is, or its "starting verse" - better known as haiku - to get involved.
Not only is it fun and accessible, it's a great way to bring out the ingenuity of the writers involved, and boost self-confidence in your own writing.
It also provides an extra tool for novelists; poets; and non-fiction writers to help maintain spontaneity in their own writing!
It's really as much the inter-play between writers that makes this both fun, and highly productive to your own writing; as it acts as a real tonic for the writer in isolation
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Alan Summers is founder of With Words, an organisation that exists to promote the love of words. Alan is the Literature Director of the Bath Japanese Festival, and a Japan Times award-winning writer for Haiku and Renga.
Alan Summers
With Words: www.withwords.org.uk
Festival: www.bathjapanesefestival.com
BBC article: Bristol poet leads giant verse
You don't even have to know what renga is, or its "starting verse" - better known as haiku - to get involved.
Not only is it fun and accessible, it's a great way to bring out the ingenuity of the writers involved, and boost self-confidence in your own writing.
It also provides an extra tool for novelists; poets; and non-fiction writers to help maintain spontaneity in their own writing!
It's really as much the inter-play between writers that makes this both fun, and highly productive to your own writing; as it acts as a real tonic for the writer in isolation
.
Alan Summers is founder of With Words, an organisation that exists to promote the love of words. Alan is the Literature Director of the Bath Japanese Festival, and a Japan Times award-winning writer for Haiku and Renga.
Alan Summers
With Words: www.withwords.org.uk
Festival: www.bathjapanesefestival.com
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HOW TO BOOK
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Cost £24 (con £22) with wine
BOOKING NOW OPEN with WRITING EVENTS BATH:
Renga webpage:
Sounds like fun! I'll have to try renga some day.
ReplyDeleteI'll pass this info on to my Newcastle Group - you never know someone might be going south ;)
ReplyDeletebest regards on your coming event Alan
ReplyDeletemuch love
gillena
Have a great time, Alan!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes
Ralf