Giving the Wound Air:
Expressing the Inexpressible in Your Own Words
With Susan Musgrave
Date: May 12 – 17, 2024
Location: Holly Hock Retreats
In this interactive workshop, use readings and exercises to delve into your own grief journey through whatever medium you choose. We will write, and share our work, when we are ready, with other participants in a brave, non-judgmental space. No writing experience required. Every time I sit down to write, I am a beginner.
Margaret Atwood has said all writing is an attempt to bring back the dead. To journey into the past and bring back what is vanished. If we can’t bring our beloved ones back physically, we can do it in our own words, one truthful word at a time.
Susan Musgrave travels widely, both abroad and in Canada, to give speeches, writing workshops and poetry readings, and has been Writer-in-Residences at four Canadian universities.
Most recently she read at the 8th Winter Warmer Poetry Festival (26th-29th November, via Zoom and live-streamed via Youtube), Cork, Ireland, and at the Phil Grimes Pub, Waterford, Ireland, in November 2022.
8th Winter Warmer Poetry Festival 2022
About Her Public Performances
"...a fearless woman on the page and on the stage, quite probably Canada's greatest living poet.."
Roselawn CentrePort Colborne, Ontario
"It didn't matter if you hadn't heard of Susan Musgrave. Or if you hadn't read her books. By the end of the evening everyone knew everything about her and were moved by the poignancy of her words."
Review of Harbourfront Performance Toronto Star
"Susan Musgrave has made me hate poetry a little less."
Spectrum High School studentVictoria, B.C
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