Body as Home
A two-hour generative and ecological creative writing workshop with Lani O’Hanlon.
About this Event
LISTENING TO THE RIVER
Body as Home
A two-hour generative and ecological creative writing workshop with Lani O’Hanlon. Writing through the senses, to explore our changing bodies and landscapes as home, in a gentle and playful way.
In association with the Waxed Lemon and the Arts Office, Waterford City and County Council, you are invited to this generative workshop to celebrate Poetry Day, 2026.
All you will need to bring with you is a pen and paper.
Spaces are limited, please book early!
Lani O’Hanlon, has been practising and teaching meditation, creative writing, creative dance/somatic movement/voice for over twenty-five years, and this practice informs all that she does, including her work as a poet working with mental health and in palliative care with Réalta, the National Advisory Body for Arts + Health. She has an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University and has received awards for her short stories and poetry, including the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize in 2025, and nominated for the Forward Prize in 2026 by Southword.
Her collection Landscape of the Body (Dedalus Press, 2023) has been widely praised, and her work appears in journals and anthologies: including Channel, Hive, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry (Chicago), Portland Review, Southword, The Irish Times, is regularly broadcast on RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany, and featured in numerous anthologies. She is currently completing a co-created poetry collection, About Grief – Songs of Love.
Lani is the grateful recipient of bursaries, mentorships and awards from Waterford City and County Arts Office, Creative Waterford, the National Arts Council of Ireland and The Munster Literature Centre.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterford Gallery of Art, 31-32 O'Connell Street, Waterford, Ireland
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