Poetry Writing Workshop for 12-15 year olds with Poet& author Enda Wyley
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About this event
Enda Wyley is a poet, children’s author and teacher. She was born in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin and currently lives in Dublin. She has published six collections of poetry with Dedalus Press: Eating Baby Jesus (1993), Socrates in the Garden (1998), Poems for Breakfast (2004), To Wake to This (2009), and Borrowed Space: New and Selected Poems (2014). Her most recent collection is The Painter on his Bike (2019). Her poetry for children has been included in anthologies such as Something Beginning with P (O’Brien Press) and Once Upon A Place, ed. Eoin Colfer (Little Island). Enda Wyley is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of creative artists. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to techniques to get them started writing their own poetry.
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