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Drafting Table Performance Session
Welcome to Drafting Table, where we share our emerging poems with each other and provide feedback in a safe and inclusive environment.
Maybe you have been attending the Getting Started sessions and feel ready to edit your work and develop your ideas. Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next steps in your poetry career. Just bring a willingness to receive and provide feedback with the whole group!
Once a month, we invite a published poet to join us. There will be a short reading of their poems followed by a workshop where attendees can learn more about the creative process, get an insight into what it means to be a poet, and share our work with them.
This month’s poet is Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana.
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana is a poet and teacher living in Newcastle with her son, Ryoma. Her first poetry collection Sing me down from the dark (SALT; 2022) is in its 3rd issue. She teaches workshops for The Poetry Business, The Writing School and The Writing Well, specialising in Japanese cultural concepts and forms. This October, she will visit Japan to work on her second collection and give a presentation on zuihitsu, at The Japan Writers Conference, in Futaba.
Alexandra has been placed and shortlisted in many competitions including The Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, The Fish Prize, The Troubadour Prize, and The Winchester Prize, and she was longlisted for the 2023 National Poetry Competition.
This year, her newest poems are published or forthcoming in The North, Anthropocene, The Interpreter’s House, The Madrid Review, SPELT and Obsessed with Pipework and English Review
(Hodder Education). She has performed her poems internationally at the American Writers Program conference, in Portland, Oregon, in Amsterdam, and at U.K venues including the Wee Gatherin, Tears in the Fence, and the Leeds Poetry festival.
Feel free to email any queries to opldraftingtable@gmail.com