Irish Writers Centre: Writers in the Regions poetry masterclass with Victoria Kennefick

Join poet Victoria Kennefick for a special edition of the Irish Writers Centre’s Writers in the Regions. The theme of this two-hour masterclass is ‘Fear and Loathing: How to Transform Anxiety into Poems that Work’.  

Anxiety, it could be said, is the curse of our age. It adopts many guises and germinates from many seeds planted by childhood hurts, illness, loss, relationships, ageing and technology to name but a few. How do we, as poets, grapple with these myriad anxieties, face them, channel them and craft them into poems that are in real service to our readers. Join us for this immersive, generative workshop where we will focus, breathe and truly bear witness to the full spectrum of what it means to be human and make poems that will confront, soothe and dispel the crippling spectre of unacknowledged fear. 

This masterclass will be a lecture-style event with a Q&A at the end. 

Duration: Two hours 

This event is supported by the Irish Writers’ Centre