Name: POETRY WORKSHOP with ROBYN ROWLAND: "Silence, its Dialects, and the Passion that Forms Them"
Start: 2024-10-10T08:30:00+10:00
End: 2024-10-10T11:30:00+10:00
Location: Launceston Library

POETRY WORKSHOP with ROBYN ROWLAND: "Silence, its Dialects, and the Passion that Forms Them"

Music is enhanced by its necessary partner, silence. So too, poetry needs space to breathe. Writing comes out of silence and returns to it, leaving a trace. In living, silence is both the shadow and the
light. Meditation and prayer enter silence and carry it. In relationships, silence can be the threat of rejection; represent the loneliness of despair. Is our voice carried into absence? Invisibility? Secret-keeping arises too from silence and families are involved in shrouding truth. Deafness brings silence
but what are the differences between this silence and peace? This workshop will discuss the many
shapes of silence.