Nature Poetry Workshop with Nell Regan

Join Nell Regan for a relaxed and stimulating writing workshop, You will look at early Japanese poetry as a way of approaching our everyday and familiar surroundings. Using the art in the exhibition as a starting point, as well as participant’s own photographs of or stories about the Sugarloaf, Regan will  guide participants to begin to play with language and put together images, lines and imaginings. In effect, sketching with words. 

You will try out a group poem as well as individual pieces of work as well as different forms and ideas. Hopefully you’ll come away energised and surprised at what you come up with in the two hours together.

Inspired by Japanese poetry and the iconic Co Wicklow mountain the Sugarloaf, this workshop invites writers and aspiring writers to consider nature while exploring their own locale.
Bring a favourite image/ story as a prompt. 18+ Suitable for all levels. Free, booking required

This event is part of the associated programme for the exhibition Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf by Nell Regan & Cathy Henderson.

Nell Regan is a poet, non-fiction writer and translator who has published six books, most recently A Gap in the Clouds: A New Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2021) with James Hadley. This is her fourth with Arlen House who also published her debut Preparing for Spring (shortlisted for the Strong First Collection, Glen Dimplex New Writers and Vincent Buckley Awards) and the biography Helena Molony: A Radical Life, 1883 - 1967, an Irish Independent Book of the Year.

She has been a Fellow at the International Writing Programme, Iowa, a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley and recipient of The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trust Fellowship, Arts Council Literature Bursaries and the Basic Artist Income (pilot scheme). She works freelance as an educator and literary programmer and lives in Shankill, Co Dublin.

Thirty-Six Views of the Sugarloaf is funded by The Arts Council and supported by Wicklow County Arts Office through the annual Strategic Project Award Scheme.