POETRY Writing WORKSHOP WITH DR JUDITH CRISPIN
Writing the photograph
This workshop is open to beginner, emerging and established poets. Over three hours Judith will guide attendees through the beginning and refining of new poems, responding to photographic images through reflection, close observation, memory and vision. Focussing primarily on free verse, this workshop will develop your poetic voice. Some of the points that will be covered will include: the poetic voice, revision techniques, writing the photograph, real people and places, cadence and rhythm and how time works in the poem. Judith has published two books of poetry, one with photographs.
Attendees will need to bring writing materials and a copy of one printed photograph (copies only please). Registration is $40 (free for indigenous participants). For more information call Steve Marshall on 0437 660 737.
Attendees will need to bring writing materials and a copy of one printed photograph (copies only please). Registration is $40 (free for indigenous participants). For more information call Steve Marshall on 0437 660 737.
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POETRY REVIEW, THE AUSTRALIAN, 2016Dr Judith Crispin is a conservatorium-trained composer who has completed postdoctoral work in Paris and Berlin. This goes some way to explaining the beautifully paced music of her lines, and the prominence of wintry German landscapes. The way the classic and contemporary intersect with the transcendent in these sharp and elegant poems invites a reader to return to them often, and with profit.
Aidan Coleman is a poet and critic. The Australian |
About The Artist
Dr Judith Crispin is an art director, photographer and poet. Currently she directs the Kurdiji 1.0 Aboriginal suicide prevention project, a Warlpiri community-led app which aims to reconnect young Indigenous people with culture. Since 2011 Judith has spent several months of every year living and working with Warlpiri people in Lajamanu. She has conducted fourteen expeditions with Warlpiri elders to remote ancestral sites in the Central Desert. Judith has published a collection of poetry, The Myrrh-bearers (Sydney: Puncher & Wattman, 2015), and a book of photographs from the Tanami with poems, The Lumen Seed (New York: Daylight Books, 2016).
She is an invited poet for regular public reading programs such as Manning Clark House reading series, Poetry at the House, Poetry at Smiths, Poetry at Magnet (Melbourne), and Sappho poetry reading series (Sydney) and at Festivals including Poetry on the Move (Canberra) and the 26th Medellin International Poetry Festival (Colombia). Her photographs are in collections all over the world and she has been a guest speaker and exhibiter at photography festivals including Auckland Photography Festival, Photobook Melbourne, Adelaide Shimmer Festival, Pingyao International Photography Festival and Ballarat International Foto Biennale. You can see some of her work on the Social Documentary site https://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Judith_Crispin/3815.
She is an invited poet for regular public reading programs such as Manning Clark House reading series, Poetry at the House, Poetry at Smiths, Poetry at Magnet (Melbourne), and Sappho poetry reading series (Sydney) and at Festivals including Poetry on the Move (Canberra) and the 26th Medellin International Poetry Festival (Colombia). Her photographs are in collections all over the world and she has been a guest speaker and exhibiter at photography festivals including Auckland Photography Festival, Photobook Melbourne, Adelaide Shimmer Festival, Pingyao International Photography Festival and Ballarat International Foto Biennale. You can see some of her work on the Social Documentary site https://socialdocumentary.net/exhibit/Judith_Crispin/3815.