In this half-day workshop we will explore the surprising intersections of bodies and botanies in contemporary experimental poetry. We will untangle some of the rich histories of language as material, margins as both perplexing and fruitful, and the scope for transformation that this writing enables.
In doing so, we will engage with questions of difficulty, resistance, labour, joy and provisionality through an embodied and emplacement poetics.
This course will offer an introduction to experimental poets both ‘canonical’ and marginal.
Alongside, we will consider botanical evocations in Modernist and post-modern prose and film – trees bearing witness to violence, forests and experiments of innocence, and impressionist gardens – to explore the cross-fertilisation of matter, medium and material.
Tutor: Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell is completing a PhD in contemporary experimental poetics at Cambridge. She is part of the Ledbury Emerging Critics programme.
This half-day workshop is part of our Tutor Academy week.
Date: Saturday 13 April 2019, 2pm – 4.30pm
Location:Poetry School offices, London
Cost: £35
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