Performance Poetry – a Workshop with Alice d’Lumiere

A practical workshop with performance poet Alice d’Lumiere exploring how to write verse for live audiences, with time to share and develop participants’ work.

Performance artist, playwright and poet Alice d’Lumiere leads a workshop on creating poetry for performance. The session explores the building blocks of verse—syllables, stress, rhyme and meter—from a practical perspective, focusing on writing to entertain and connect with live audiences.

The workshop looks at techniques for different venues and crowds, using well-known poems and examples from Alice’s recent stage work to explore voice, cadence, genre and identity.

There is time after the workshop to look at participants’ own work; attendees are encouraged to bring verse or short prose (on paper or memorised).

Date & time: Sat 14 Nov 2026, 1.00pm