Tuesday 16 September, 8:30AM-9:30AM
Festival Hub
Writing with Animal Joy
There is an incalculable spirit within poetry that connects us to the world’s aliveness. Join Eartha Davis in a workshop that invites us to honour this spirit by experimenting with the shape, musicality, and essence a poem can possess.
Steered by Nuar Alsadir’s invigorating insights in Animal Joy, we’ll learn to tune our poems to the vast, oceanic wisdom welling just below the skin: our non-rational, embodied knowing.
Pay-What-You-Wish
EWF Festival Hub
Workshop Space (Level 1, below ground), The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Featuring...
Eartha Davis
Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and a 2025 Varuna Residency Fellow for her poetry collection màthair beinn. Her work is published in Wildness, the Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Rabbit, Awa Wahine, and takahē, among others. […]
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