Caroline will be setting you lots of writing exercises, especially designed to push you further… past the finish line, to a place where the poem might surprise you. Caroline's workshop will be followed by a talk from guest poet Kim Addonizio.

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Poetry 2020 and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and the Polari Prize. Her previous collections include In These Days of Prohibition, which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2017. Caroline’s latest play, ‘Red Ellen’, about the labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, was shortlisted for the 2021 George Devine Award. Caroline’s latest book is her Selected Poems, Rookie, published by Carcanet in Spring 2022.

Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry, The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay, and her work has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. Her new poetry collection, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is out from W.W. Norton. 

Date: Friday 9 December 2022, 10:00-16:30 GMT
Location: Online
Cost: £85 (concessions £42.50)

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