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Louth Poetry & Creative Writing A Place to Enjoy & Share Your Writing
October 2016 Writer’s Workshop Theme: Suggestion
Suggestion Suggests
• Talk about the word suggestion and what it suggests
• Make a list of ways that you might make a suggestion, and of what they may be about, perhaps include some real, or imagined suggestions you have made
• Reveal your lists of how and what your suggestions are or were
Gates to Suggestion
• Read pages 92 and 93 from Jane Hirshfield’s book Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
• Talk about the balance between the precise and the suggestive, the specific and the unsaid
• Talk about how we might be suggestive in our work
• Focus on the poem
• Write your own similar poem
• Reveal your work
Question the Suggestion
• Read the beginning of Raymond Carver’s short story What we talk about when we talk about love.
• Talk about using questions as an aide to suggestion.
• Write a piece of work using questions, use one of your own suggestions as the basis
• Reveal your work
Suggestion Within and Without
• Read Love after Love by Derek Walcott
• Talk about the poem, talk about the previous readers notes
• Ask someone to read the ‘clean’ version
• What is suggested, what is specific
• Write your own similar poem
• reveal your work
Said to Suggest
• Read the beginning of chapter 15 from Cees Nooteboom’s Lost Paradise
• What is being suggested
• What is being said, what is not being said
• Write your own said and not said piece
• Reveal your work
Gathered Readings
• Introduce and read some of your previously prepared work
• Receive feedback quietly