Images Courtesy ALEA Meanjin Volunteers

It was a great honour and enormous fun to facilitate poetry workshops for vibrant young people, at the ALEA, Meanjin at Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, on July the 4th 2019.

The participants varied in their experience and love of poetry, but many had learnt or attempted something new with poetry by the end of the workshops.

The day began with a welcome to country, acknowledgment,  from Gregg Dreise.  He invites audience participation in his welcomes and keeps everyone on their toes in an engaging way.

This was followed by a key note presentation from Morris Gleitzman, talking about the discovery of the ‘secret of writing’ through reading first lines in the library.  I won’t tell you this secret, in case you get a chance to hear Morris speak on it, and be captivated by this mystery.  You might find you already know it.

Then the…