Personally I don’t think there is any such thing as a beginning poet. Anyone who has put pen to paper is a poet as far as I’m concerned.
However, if you don’t know an iamb from an amphibrach then this workshop may benefit your poetry.
The shop will be an intimate one (no more than five or six participants), so we will have plenty of time to answer the questions I will pose.
It will be held in the Olympic Pool that it might be taken seriously, though the subject matter will be rudimentary.
The workshop will last about a week and be rather laid back.
Participants will be asked to submit examples of iamb and trochee in varying lengths of line.
The final exercise will be to write two quatrains, one in iambic pentameter and one in trochaic tetrameter.
If many or all of these terms are foreign to you I heartedly invite you to participate.
Some of those participating will not be beginners. Their input is most welcome.