Powering up your Poetic Sentences, Masterclass with Judith Beveridge 15/7/25

Robert Frost said that to write poetry was ‘to go a-sentencing’. A working knowledge of sentence structure and grammar is an invaluable tool for any writer. This workshop will look at different ways in which grammatical structures can be used to create richer detail and to make your work more developed and complex. We will look at parallelism, parataxis and hypotaxis and how these structures can help shape and deliver power to the poem and how changing the hierarchical relationship between words can have compelling effects. We will also consider tone. To quote Robert Frost again: 'it's tone I'm in love with, that's what poetry is, tone.'

Judith Beveridge lives in Sydney, Australia and is one of Australia most celebrated poets and teachers. She has published eight volumes of poetry all of which have won or been short-listed for major prizes. Her latest book is  Tintinnabulum (Giramondo, 2024). Sun Music: New and Selected Poems (Giramondo, 2018), won the Prime Minister’s Poetry Prize in 2019. She has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies including Contemporary Australian Poetry, (Puncher & Wattmann 2016). She was poetry editor for the literary magazine Meanjin from 2005-2016. Her work has been studied in schools and universities and translated into many languages. She taught poetry writing at post-graduate level for many years at the University of Sydney and continues to work in the community. She is a recipient of the Philip Hodgins Memoria Medal and the Christopher Brennan Award for excellence in literature.

NOTE: This event will be recorded

2 hours long

Start time: 10am UK time // 5pm Perth Australia // 6.30pm Adelaide & Darwin // 7pm Brisbane, Sydney, AEST // 9pm NZ  

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Cost £30 GBP (with cost effective exchange via STRIPE)

Zoom link and materials will be sent by email at least 2 days prior. If you don’t receive it get in touch with me.

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