Poems for Family & Loved Ones

From Chen Chen to Heaney, Liz Berry to Greta Stoddart, the work of many great writers often explores feelings for family and loved ones. Celebrating and exploring those we are close to is one of the key reasons people read poetry - and one of the reasons we write it. In this supportive workshop, we will look at some concrete structures which can hold, and allow us to articulate, the complex range of emotions that our connections to others give us. Through different strategies, we'll aim to pour all that joy, wonder, even difficulty that those we love bring into our lives, into drafts which properly honour these miraculous people!

Jonathan Edwards’s first collection of poems, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton…