Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop In Stars, Lands

Small Press Fest x DPAG x Bowstring x Emma Neale

Writers of all experience levels are invited to take part in a hands-on writing workshop responding to artwork by Nicola Farquhar.

Led by poet Emma Neale, this workshop will guide writers through creating ekphrastic poems – poetry written about works of art.

Emma Neale is one of many writers published in the accompanying exhibition reader, so this session will be specially shaped around themes within both the exhibition and the publication Stars, lands.

Emma Neale is a Dunedin based writer, editor, occasional creative writing tutor and the mother of two children. Her collections of poetry are Sleeve-notes and How to Make a Million (both from Random House) and Spark (from Steele Roberts) The Truth Garden, Tender Machines, and To the Occupant (all from Otago University Press).

Bowstring is a new project initiated by Nicola Farquhar and Warren Olds to publish and distribute materials by themselves and friends. Based in Ōtautahi, their first book is Stars, lands - a reader to accompany Nicola Farquhar’s exhibition (of the same title) at DPAG. Further information about their project can be found online at bowstring.earth.

Small Press Fest brings together small presses and independent publishers from across the motu to Ōtepoti for three days of celebration, workshops, talks, readings, and panel discussions. See the full schedule online here: https://spf23.eveningbooks.nz/

10.15am – 12.15pm, Sunday 18 August
In the exhibition Stars, lands
Free – limited spaces

[image: Two Birds Billing by Emma Neale from the exhibition reader Stars, lands (2024). Image supplied by Nicola Farquhar]