‘Paper People’: Plants & Prisoners in Poetry: Creative Writing with Sarah Byrne

Plants and prisoners share many experiences; immobility, loss and the capacity to regenerate. This workshop draws its design inspiration from the ‘Walking Lab’s four themes: place, sensory inquiry, embodiment and rhythm. Sarah will guide writers through different plant sites and practices in Bantry House Gardens that will help to create work. Through close readings of poems by writers such as Reginald Dwayne Betts and Ellen Bass, we will reflect on privilege, prison and the power of poetry to grow new realities.