Quite contrary – Contradictions in Poems
How can you inject more ‘oomph’ into your poems, deepening them with pleasing contradictions? Poems often thrive on internal tensions that pull the sounds, images, and themes in the poem taut. In this fun, interactive workshop, we’ll look at some poems containing opposing effects or contents, then create new work that dances on both sides of the fence at once.
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 10 – 11:30 a.m. (EST)
Heidi Williamson is a Writing for Life Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund, running reading and writing groups in community and
care settings. She teaches for the Poetry School, Poetry Society, National Centre for Writing and The Writing Coach. Her poetry is published by Bloodaxe: Electric Shadow (2011), The Print Museum (2016), and Return by Minor Road (2020). Her short fiction has been selected for the Bath Flash Fiction Awards, Edinburgh True Flash Awards, and Fish International Short Story Prize.
