Join top UK poet, Hannah Lowe, to explore the glosa, a centuries-old Spanish poetic form that begins with a cabeza - a borrowed quatrain - and grows into a dialogue between poets across time and space.
In this workshop, we’ll read some striking contemporary examples, trace how poets reinvent the form to honour and challenge their sources, and try writing our own glosas. You’ll leave with the beginnings of a new poem and a form that invites deep listening, echo, and transformation.
Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her last book, The Kids (2021), won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021.The forthcoming one is The Woman in the Chinese Collar (2027). Her first poetry collection, Chick (2013), won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation poets. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University.
Dates: 19 January 2026, 9am to 11 am
Location: Online
Cost: £30
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