Writing Love Poems with Helen Hagemann

Monday Poetry with Helen Hagemann continues at the Grove on Monday 25^th March. This workshop “Writing Love Poems” will help poets towards the upcoming anthology, Australian Love Poems 2013 by Inkerman & Blunt. Poets cited: Charles Olson, Pablo Neruda, John Tranter, Chris Mansell, Eric Beach, Dorothy Porter, and more.  1.00pm start. Coffee and chat in the Grove's Coffee Shop after class.  All welcome!

Venue:  The Grove Library, 1 Leake Street, Cottesloe. (Cnr Napolean St) & close to Cottesloe train station.

Date: Monday 25th March

Time: 1-3.00pm

Australian Love Poems 2013

Cost:  OOTA $15.00, Non-OOTA $20.00

WRITING LOVE POEMS

With Valentine's Day wilting over the hill, we now have a new market for love poems from Inkerman & Blunt (Donna Ward), Australian Love Poems 2013. Therefore, this workshop aims to help you write a sincere, yet effective poem(s). However, “sincere” does not mean trite, twee, sentimental, or clichéd. The challenge is to take an age-old theme and make it fully your own (Robert Graves once said there are only three perennial subjects for poetry – “love, death, and the changing of the seasons”). 

The Perfume of Flowers
                  Charles Olson

The perfume

of flowers! A haw

drops such odour

it stops me

in the wall

of its fall. Love

arrests

Lime-trees

saturate

the night. We walk

in it

On a path jonquils

fill

the air. Love

is a scent.

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Prose Class with Helen Hagemann @ Fremantle Arts Centre

Friday, 22^nd March is the prose class with Helen Hagemann. Writers will look at two short stories  The Story of the Bus Driver who Wanted to be God and Breaking the Pig by Israeli writer Etgar Keret from his short story collection, The Bus Driver who Wanted to be God.  Writing exercises and discussion on "Writing a Creative History" in your work. The class will look at ways of writing the social, cultural, political, or fundamental flaws in our society in a light-hearted and humorous way. 
Venue: Room 2, Upstairs North Wing, Fremantle Arts Centre Friday 22nd March at 10.00am
Cost: $20 OOTA, $25 Non-OOTA
All welcome! 

Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Keret has received the Prime Minister's award for literature, as well as the Ministry of Culture's Cinema Prize. The short film Malka Lev Adom (Skin Deep, 1996), which Keret wrote and directed with Ran Tal, won an Israel Film Academy award and first place in the Munich International Festival of Film Schools. The film Jellyfish, a joint venture for Keret and his wife received the Camera d'Or prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, Keret received the Chevalier (Knight) Medallion of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today. Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English. Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father's first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. The Bus Driver includes stories from Keret's bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret's major new novella, "Kneller's Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.

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Creastive Writing at the Fremantle Arts Centre with Helen Hagemann

Friday, 8^th March is the prose class with Helen Hagemann.  Continuing with our Worldwide short fiction, writers will read the short story Panic from The Rendezvous & Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier. Writing exercises and discussion about creating “a twist in the plot”. 10-noon. All welcome!

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. .Her elder sister was the writer Angela du Maurier. Her father was the actor Gerald du Maurier. Her grandfather was the writer George du Maurier. Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She amassed 159 works including novels, short story collections, plays, and biographies. Her best known novels are Rebecca and The Birds, both adapted to film by Alfred Hitchcock. Literary critics have sometimes berated du Maurier's works for not being "intellectually heavyweight" like those of George Eliot or Iris Murdoch. By the 1950s, when the socially and politically critical "angry young men" were in vogue, her writing was felt by some to belong to a bygone age. Today, she has been reappraised as a first-rate storyteller, a mistress of suspense. Her ability to recreate a sense of place is much admired, and her work remains popular worldwide. For several decades she was the most popular author for library book borrowings.

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