Where, in a city, does poetry meet history?
History is displayed in signs and facades, breathed into the leaves of red river gums and plane trees, shaped into the corners and slopes of streets and beds of grass, resounding in busker ballads and protest chants, held in the bubbles and sediments of bluestone that we walk over and are sheltered by.
In this walking poetry workshop, we will connect with the power of place, respecting and knowing that the street grids of Naarm, so-called ‘Melbourne’, are a colonial form imposed on Woi-Worrung and Bunurung lands and waters.
We will open our imaginations to the visible and secreted stories that live in the urban landscape, and practice writing to the past. In connecting with the city’s layered, fragmented, cacophonous history, how might we come into a new relationship our own stories? What surprising poems and poetic knowledges might grow in and beyond an inner street grid?
Inner Melbourne: Starting Point Near Parliament Station (precise location given on booking)
Your facilitator: Nadia Rhook is a historian and poet with expertise on place-based histories of migration in 19th Century Victoria. She's the author of two history-themed poetry collections: boots (2020) and Second Fleet Baby (2022).
COST: $45 +bf full/$30 + bf concession
TICKETING TYPE: PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED
TICKET LINK: https://events.humanitix.com/where-poetry-meets-history
OTHER: ADULTS ONLY / OUTDOOR EVENT
ACCESSIBILITY:
Alcohol Free.
The event is walking outdoor tour. The route is wheelchair accessible (please contact facilitator if there is any questions regarding the route). There is no defined toilet facilities except for public toilets en-route.