Saskia Hamilton: Recording and Poem Links from Marjorie's Table 21st May
Recording and poem links, warm up words and final prompt from today's creative writing session using the work of Saskia Hamilton
Good morning writers! We had 30 early birds at Marjorie’s Table today. If you’re not a paid subscriber and would like to try writing to a recording before you subscribe, DM me for the link to today’s workshop.
I discovered Saskia Hamilton on Maya C. Popa’s terrific Substack Poetry Today, and loved her work so much I decided to use it in today’s workshop. As usual, some of our warm up words and the links to the poems from today’s session, including our take-away prompt, are below.
Warm Up - here are few gifted (double-meaninged) words from today’s live writers: spade, bark, dawn, ghost, skip, jump, port, love, pitch, lead, slide, matter, reckoning, and blow - feel free to steal these for use in your own writing.
Poems - we looked at three poems today, starting with “On. On. Stop. Stop.” and “Zwijgen” and discussing the craft of these first two poems before writing in response. The final poem was “From ‘All Souls’”, and I gave the takeaway prompt to write about a clock that has been allowed to wind down.
The link to the recording of today’s workshop is beyond the paywall below, but I’m very happy to send it to anyone who would like to try out Marjorie’s Table - just drop me a DM. If you’re not a regular subscriber and would like to join us for weekly workshops - or use the recordings of the workshops in your own time - please upgrade to a paid subscription (currently £5 for four workshops each month, but likely to rise in the coming days).
The next Marjorie’s Table session for Substack paid subscribers is from 7:30-8am on Wednesday 28st May, with login details emailed out on Monday 26th May.
Happy writing, Marjorie