If You Want Heaven, Start in Mud

A one-day poetry workshop, looking into matters of craft and composition and form, by a close study of some remarkable poems.

THIS ONE-DAY online poetry masterclass is for experienced poets and beginners, for teachers and scholars and creatives and the curious—everyone interested in understanding what poetry is, how it works on the page and in our hearts (the molecular revolutions it alone can start), what essential work it does in the world (the refutation of cant, the accompanying of solitude, the witness it bears on the inner life of lived experience, the elevated consideration it allows of human and more than human life, the fashioning and modelling of freedom, the wisdom and clarity it gives rise to, the diversity it insists on, the independence of thought it practises and promotes), how you might learn to read poetry more astutely (drawing more value from it), and how you might learn to teach poetry more usefully and make your own poems with more confidence and depth of craft.

The one-day online course is a chance to get more intimate with poetry, that notoriously dark art, under the guidance of an acclaimed Australian poet.

Plenty of opportunity for questions and answers, to workshop a poem or your own, and to get a little guidance on how to get your poems finished and out into the world. Join Mark in the zoom room, meet some fine poems, meet some fellow poets and readers of poems, share your ideas and gain invaluable knowledge on the art and craft of that oldest of all literatures, that fashioning of soft bombs—poetry.

Register here ($400 AUD).