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Poetry School: Between Magic & Camouflage: Dressing up your Poems Studio with Sue Burge
Mon 15 Jun 2026 to Sun 12 Jul 2026
This workshop will examine different aspects of what we wear and why, from clothes-lines to chorus-lines. We will explore how references to items of clothing can create further imaginative layers in our poetry, and how, as a focus/theme, they can veil, disguise or expose our poetic intentions.
As well as a wide range of example poems, including Kim Addonizio, Seamus Heaney, Victoria Kennefick, Jen Hadfield, Alison Ballantyne, Saeed Jones, and Robert Pinsky, we will also use film-stills to discover how costume can create personas and alter egos.
Studios are 4-week intensive courses. Reading material will be distributed before the course begins. There are no live chats so they are suitable for both UK & International students.
Sue Burge is a freelance tutor, mentor and editor based in Norfolk. She is also a film-studies tutor with a penchant for silent film, road movies and David Lynch. Her poems have been published in a wide range of journals and feature in themed anthologies on science fiction, modern Gothic, illness, Britishness, endangered birds, WWI, and Laurel and Hardy. Her first pamphlet, Lumière (2018 Hedgehog Poetry Press) explores Paris’s cinematic and literary legacy; her second pamphlet, The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehog Poetry Press) was published in 2020. She has three collections out with Live Canon: In the Kingdom of Shadows, Confetti Dancers, and The Artificial Parisienne. The latter examines her edgy on-going relationship with Paris. Her eco-angst collection, watch it slowly fade, was published by Yaffle Press in July 2025.
Dates: 15 June - 12 July 2026
Location: Online
Cost: £100
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Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
International
Price:
£100
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