How can poetry map the human body in unexpected ways? What are the links between the substance of a poem and our very flesh? The breath of poetry and our own breathing?
This course offers new and experienced poets alike a practical insight into ways in which verse can stirringly reveal, embody, inhabit and transfigure flesh and bone. Prompting participants to engage with the visual and with a range of writers’ dealings with the body, the tutors will offer a poetic anatomy lesson.
What vocabularies and what poetic forms best suit the writing of particular bodies? How have poets movingly responded to the body’s pathologies as well as its joys? How does poetry communicate the feel of forces acting beyond and between bodies?
Encouraging poetic experimentation with the stuff of our human frame in all its familiarity and otherness, its vulnerability and resilience, Embodying Poetry will equip participants with the tools to write poetry that gives a powerfully physical meaning to writing the human heart.
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