Sparking the Flame:using novelty and surprise to set your poems alight is an informal Poetry Writing Workshop with prize-winning poet, Nina Parmenter. Booking is essential, more information and tickets here.

You are invited to join members of the Trowbridge Stanza for an informal, enjoyable poetry two-hour workshop led by Nina Parmenter on Saturday 7 September at 2pm. Nina is a widely published poet whose collection Split, Twist, Apocalypse was published by Indigo Dreams in 2022.

Sparking the Flame: using novelty and surprise to set your poems alight - with Nina Parmenter, descriptor: The human brain loves novelty, and whether you’re writing poems or reading them, the unexpected can get the synapses firing! In this fun, interactive prompt-based workshop, we’ll be taking our poems outside of the ordinary to shake up our thoughts and get the ideas flowing. Expect to come away with some surprising drafts!

All you need is a notebook and pen. If you’d like to, please also bring a poem that you’re working on that you feel could benefit from a little spark of inspiration.

Join in with our friendly poetry group, and Nina will guide you to write the beginnings of new poems. All levels of experience are welcome. 

The Trowbridge Stanza was established by Josephine Corcoran in 2016, and is a Poetry Society Stanza usually meeting on the first Saturday of the month at Drawing Projects UK in Trowbridge. A friendly, inclusive group, the Trowbridge Stanza is a mixture of published and unpublished poets, with an age range of 16+ to 80+ who travel to Drawing Projects UK (next to Trowbridge train station) from all over the South West region and beyond.