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The Workshop

The Leman Poetry Workshop is a cross-border group of English-language poets living in Switzerland and France, centred around one of the dominant topological features in this region — Lac Léman (or Lake Geneva as it is sometimes, incorrectly, called).

The Workshop was founded in 2000 by Brian Hughes and Karen Mason, after a group of like-minded poets met at the Geneva Writers’ Conference that year.

Initially there were eight members, but the numbers have waxed and waned over the years because people have come and gone … as they tend to do in this part of the world.

These comings and goings are, in one respect, a problem as the size of the group constantly varies. But, on the other hand, this human mobility is a positive factor as new members regularly contribute an infusion of fresh ideas, techniques and creativity.  At the moment the Workshop has members with origins in America, Britain, France, New Zealand, the Phillipines, Switzerland and Vietnam.

As well as writing poetry, and critiquing other members’ work at our meetings, the Leman Poetry Workshop also publishes anthologies, hosts open-mic readings and produces evenings of poetry and music. We try to bring poetry alive, and we believe this website is another way of doing that. Soon we will be posting audio and video files of poetry readings … both ours and those of other poets.

Please note that it is still new and some pages are under construction.

Come back soon!

 

 

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By Karen L. McDermott

free the shutters
throw wide the window

let the day’s air mingle
with sleep        with the cooking
caught in corners and night
slipping away to palest blue

hail the vanishing moon
and soar      silver-bellied
nightgown and all

into morning

Geneva Open-mic poetry evening

Geneva Open-mic poetry evening

Save the date! On Monday March 26th, from 19:00h to 21:00h there will be an Open-mic poetry reading at the Ethno Bar in downtown Geneva. Everyone is welcome, whether to read a poem or to just listen. Poems can be in English or French. You may read your own work, or someone else’s, but there […]

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