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.