What makes a metaphor memorable, surprising and effective? Through practical writing exercises and guided exploration, participants will experiment with metaphor and discover how it can deepen meaning, create vivid imagery and open up new ways of seeing. You’ll have the opportunity to test and develop metaphors in your own writing, learning how to recognise when an image is fresh and vital, when it falls flat, and how to push your language beyond the expected. Suitable for writers at any level, this workshop will give you practical tools to strengthen one of poetry’s most powerful creative devices.