‘A good poem is always about something else other than what it’s about’ – Charles Causley

Poems don’t have to tell the truth but they have to be true to themselves even if they’re telling a lie. A day workshop with poet and playwright Phil Bowen.

 

Phil Bowen is a poet, performer, biographer and playwright who has worked in over 500 schools in more than thirty counties as a poet-in-education since becoming a freelance writer in 1994. He has published three full collections – Variety’s Hammer and Starfly, both with Stride, and Nowhere’s Far- New & Selected Poems 1990 -2008 with Salt Publications, printed and reprinted in 2009. http://www.philbowen.co.uk/

 

Supported by the Writers on Tour programme from Literature Wales.