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Wielding the Green Knife: Poetry Weekend with Feral Angels

Join Tom Hirons and Rozi Hilton for a weekend intensive in the territory of poetry with its blazing head in the cosmos and its feet in the muck and murk of this world.

Wielding the Green Knife: Poetry Weekend with Feral Angels

About Wielding the Green Knife: Poetry Weekend with Feral Angels

Immersive, alive, embodied and richly experiential, this is not your average poetry weekend. We live for the lifeforce and to hear it whisper and roar and sing. Come and explore with us how to bring this bright fire and deep water into your words.

Known for their kind but uncompromising facilitation as well as their much-loved poetry, Tom and Rozi offer an exploratory foray into a world of urgent truth-telling.

Our aim for these weekends is for participants to be able to claim more space for their genuine selves when they leave than when they arrived, to be fizzing with presence and vision, and to be significantly closer to writing the poetry they want to write.

We’ll be spending time in these thickets, through exercises (both written and embodied) and conversation.

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