The Black Out Poetry Project
Mon 14 Apr
|The Greenhouse-Victoria Park-Portsmouth
This free black out poetry workshop forms a part of the In Our Words Project funded by Portsmouth Creates. Join us in the stunning Victoria Park and to be a part of placing Portsmouth on the literary map and improving literacy rates within the city.
Time & Location
14 Apr 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
The Greenhouse-Victoria Park-Portsmouth, 3 Stanhope Rd, Portsmouth PO1 3HJ, UK
About the event
What is Black Out Poetry?
Black out poetry is also known as retracted or erasure poetry. It involves taking a page of text and removing (blacking out) words until you're left with a poem.
What will I do in the workshop?
We will be taking pages from the famous novel Oliver Twist, written by the Portsmouth born author Charles Dickens. You will then remove sections of the text until you are left with a short poem. There will be pens and pencils on hand so that you can illustrate or doodle over the parts of the text you've removed.
What happens next?
With your agreement we'll keep hold of your poetry and art work for a few weeks so that it can be displayed at our exhibition day on 30th May in Victoria Park, where you'll be invited to join us and all the other participants to celebrate your work.…