Saturday Poetry at the Grove Library, Peppermint Grove

Helen Hagemann’s Saturday Poetry Workshop this week 3rd March @ 1.30pm-3.30pm is called ‘Motherland’. The class will look at ways of writing the heartfelt and personal aspects our own country. Class involves further writing exercises on the patriotic/ political & historical heritage of one's original "motherland'. We will be reading and discussing poems by Dorothea Mackellar, Hyllus Maris, Amy Witting, Jo Shapcott (UK), Dennis O'Driscoll (IE), Michael Crummey (CA), e e cummings (US), and Marina Tsvetaeva (RU). Cost: OOTA $15, Non-OOTA $20.  All welcome!