We will look at the works by poets including Patricia Smith, Anthony Anaxagorou, Marilyn Chin, Roger Robinson, Karen Solie, Jon Stone, Fiona Benson, and Rishi Dastidar to see how they construct their dystopian narratives, play with forms and structures, watch films, flip through newspapers, as we construct poems that navigate between surreal living, awakenings, justice, and reality.

The course will have 2 parts, the first being a Zoom session, filled with challenging reading, writing, and group discussions on the topic, after which you’ll be set various writing prompts and exercises to complete at home, before reconvening for a Zoom-based workshop in part 2 to discuss and develop your new poems.

Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong. She studied English at Oxford and received has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and a creative writing PhD from Oxford Brookes University. Her poems have appeared in The Rialto, Magma Poetry, Oxford Poetry, World Literature Today, Stand, The North, Wildness, The Scores, Asian Cha, Voice & Verse, Prairie Schooner, and others. Her latest collection, ?? Letters Home, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2020 and was named a Wild Card choice by Poetry Book Society. She is also the author of Goldfish (Chameleon Press 2013) and a pamphlet, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry 2019).

Dates: Saturdays, 10 & 31 October 2020, 10.30am – 1pm
Location: Online
Cost: £75

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