Consider how working class experiences can disrupt poetic norms and create vital new work. Join us for a session of close reading, exploring experimental working class writers.
This morning workshop will focus on how aspects of working class experience as poetic theme can disrupt the formal modes of a text and also touch on how you might incorporate these techniques into your own writing.
We will take inspiration from Ann Quinn’s, The Unmapped Country, Stories and Fragments, Glenda George’s, Dissecting the Corpus, Fran Lock’s Contains Mild Peril, and Anthony Anaxagorou’s After the Formalities, amongst others. We will also work through a number of writing games and prompts in class to kick at the edges of our own poems. Please feel free to bring previously written poems for these tasks.
Rachael Allen’s first collection of poems, KINGDOMLAND, is published by Faber & Faber. She is the co-author of a number of collaborative artists’ books, including Nights of Poor Sleep with Marie Jacotey, published by Prototype, and Almost One. Say Again! with JocJonJosch, published by Slimvolume.
Date: Wednesday 4 August 2021, 10.30am – 1pm
Location: Poetry School, London
Cost: £35
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