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Crawl inside the strange machinery through which poems compress, transform and accumulate meaning. A poem can fold time, gather distant memories into a single image, and allow ordinary objects to carry impossible emotional weight.Enjoy playful writing exercises, formal experiments and close readings of a selection of Australian poems with celebrated poet Luke Patterson. Pull apart and put back together image, sound, line, repetition, association and surprise. Generate new poems, test different ways of shaping and reshaping them, and gather a collection of techniques and prompts to carry into your own practice.
KEY INFO
Date: Friday, 30 October 2026
Time: 9:45 -12:45 pm
Venue: Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Tickets & More Info: https://www.bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au/workshops/luke-patterson-workshop
Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, educator and musician whose poetry has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Plumwood Mountain, Rabbit, Running Dog and The Suburban Review. His debut poetry collection, A Savage Turn, is out now with Magabala Books.
This event is part of the 2026 Blue Mountains Writers Festival, head to bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au for more information.
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Event venue
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 30-32 Parke St, Katoomba NSW 2780, Australia, Katoomba
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