The Alchemy of Metaphor: a Workshop with Pascale Petit
Join award-winning poet Pascale Petit to write poems full of metamorphosis and creative alchemy as she encourages you to explore the power of metaphor, and its ability to translate the personal into vivid new realms. Pascale will share her own experience of creating a metaphoric world in her collections. You will discover how to transform your experiences – even unhappy ones – and how the more-than-human worlds can help us turn experience into beauty.
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