Writers' Workshop with the Bards of Dorchester and Dorset

Writers' Workshop

Inspired by Hardy: Writing Place, Memory and Voice

Led by Rebecca Danicic, Bard of Dorchester, and Peter Roe, Grand Bard of Dorset and Director of The Jawbone Collective CIC

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This two-hour workshop explores how Thomas Hardy’s poetry continues to inspire contemporary writing rooted in landscape, memory and emotional geography.

Aimed at participants already familiar with Hardy’s work, the session will draw upon poems including Wessex Heights and Lulworth Cove, alongside contemporary response pieces by Peter and Rebecca. Through close reading, discussion and guided creative exercises, participants will consider how Hardy transformed landscape into emotional and symbolic terrain, and how modern writers might continue that conversation within their own practice.