Poetry School: Global Majority Writing from the British Countryside: A Poetry Masterclass with Louisa Adjoa Parker
Explore the joy and resilience of pastoral writing from Global Majority poets. This course aims to support emerging writers with Global Majority heritage living in rural Britain to create new and exciting work rooted in their own and others’ experiences of nature and the countryside.
The course tutor, Louisa Adjoa Parker, has written extensively on her own and others’ experiences of life in rural spaces as a racially minoritised person, and this course will provide a nurturing, comfortable space for others to share and create in the same vein.
Participants will immerse themselves in the work of a range of Global Majority poets currently writing about human relationships with the natural world. We will explore themes such as migration, colonialism, and Empire, and their legacies, alongside relationships with the natural environment including joy and resilience, and the different experiences people have of contemporary rural life.
By the end of the course, participants will have created several new poems.
Louisa Adjoa Parker is a writer and poet of English and Ghanaian heritage who lives in the Southwest. She draws on her intersectional lived experience to inform her work, and her focus is on telling the stories of marginalised voices. She has published four poetry collections and has a memoir forthcoming with Little Toller Books.
Dates: 23 September - 16 December 2025
Location: Online
Cost: £215 / 50% discount available for under-represented writers, including poets from Global Majority, LGBTQI+, d/Deaf, &/or disabled communities.
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