Activity: Workshop on Poetics
Co-ordinator: Dr Joyce Jonas with Moray House Trust
Sponsor : Scotiabank
Date: 19th May 2012
Young Writers of Poetry Workshop Session # 2 May 18th 2012
Introduction to Poetic Craft & Technique
Selected Poems for Discussion by Dr. Joyce Jonas
Workshop Materials
THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF POEMS
SITUATION OF THE POEM: Who is speaking? About what? To whom?
MESSAGE/THEME: What is the poet concerned about? What message is being conveyed? The situation of the poem may be a kind of parable: a poem about a deer being killed by a car may be a discussion of the destructiveness of technology; a poem relating the story of a werewolf may be a criticism of gossiping.
List of participants
- La Toni Beaton
- Randolph Critchlow
- Jaime Mayers
- Juanita Critchlow
- Melissa King
- Yaphet Jackman
- Mark Luke-Edwards
- Radiante Frank
- Kojo McPherson
- Rosanna Taitt
- Mosa Telford
- Tiffany Vasquez
- Rochelle Christie
- Jamal La Rose
Video Clips:
A Young poet reads his poem