Using established workshop techniques, the Crescent Arts Centre creative writing group offers practical encouragement to writers of poetry and fiction. The focus is on group members’ own work (members will be expected to produce work on a weekly basis) which will be supported and enhanced through the discussion of the work of a wide range of contemporary writers. Martin Mooney is the award-winning author of three collections of poetry, as well as short stories and work for the stage.
The Crescent Arts Centre creative writing group meets on Monday evenings at 7.30. Meetings last approximately two hours, and will usually involve supportive-but-critical discussion of new work by members, some informal 'study' of the work of at least one contemporary writer, and when possible some hands-on writing exercises.
This blog exists to support the group by publishing our work-in-progress in advance of the weekly meeting, creating a forum for discussions on a broader range of issues than we can deal with in meetings, and generally letting us keep in touch.
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Thnks for the welcome,
Ken
I'm having problems because the lines are short so the spacing for the poem is all wrong.Never mind,E.
The Ward
Looking left and right but mostly
right for my father,
I saw a man who looked like Spike
Milligan
sitting sleeping in a chair.He'd
quite long hair.
Coming to the end and not seeing
him I turned
and walked back double checking.
And it wasn't at all obvious to me
that the sitting sleeping man was
him.
Looking nothing like himself I was
confused.
Was I meant to believe
that the man I didn't think I knew
was the man I thought I knew so
well?
When he woke we spoke a little
reminding ourselves
who we were and after we'd sipped
a little wine
he said "you'd better go now."He
was right.
I left and never heard him speak
again.
(that's it folks' over....)
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