Our Voices Together
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Join acclaimed poet and children’s author Nadine Aisha Jassat for an engaging and accessible workshop for children of all ages and their families. Together we’ll have fun trying new poetry prompts to celebrate who we are, and making a collective poem from all of us to be displayed throughout the festival.
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A Thousand Words: A Visual Poetry Workshop
4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Join poet and artist Dan Power for a hands-on writing workshop, where we’ll be blurring the line between poem and picture. Drawing from concrete poetry and photography, this workshop will take your writing to unexpected places, revealing connections between imagery and the imaginary. Transform poems into pictures and pictures into poems as you create your own visual poetry.
Get TicketsInherited Stories: A Masterclass with Sarah Howe
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Join Sarah Howe for a workshop exploring the stories we inherit and the fertile space where generational memory and ancestral lore shade into myth and hearsay. We’ll look at the myths about ourselves that others impose on us, thinking about inherited and newly invented poetic forms, before generating new drafts.
Get TicketsMake A Tiny Poetry Game with Tinderbox
Across the Festival, Sat 14th Nov
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Make your poetry interactive, learn about game design, and make your own tiny pixel-art game using Bitsy, a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories! Led by Tinderbox Collective, this workshop is open to any level of experience with games, including complete beginners.
Get TicketsWorking With Marginalised Groups
10:15 am - 11:45 am
If you’re interested in using poetry to work with marginalised groups, don’t miss this workshop with social worker and researcher Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. Sharing her experience of working with care-experienced young people on a project about friendship, Autumn will support participants to think about how they themselves might develop sessions for working with marginalised groups.
Get TicketsCreating Queer and Othered Worlds
10:30 am - 11:55 am
Join acclaimed poet Joelle Taylor for an intimate writing workshop exploring critical fabulation through a queer lens. Experimenting with approaches Joelle used in the collections Maryville and C+nto & Othered Poems, this workshop will look at how to create fictional universes in poetry, and how to explore queer identity as we build worlds.
Get TicketsPoetry Masterclass with Anthony Joseph
3:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Join award-winning poet, novelist and musician Anthony Joseph for an ‘ear-training’ workshop for poets, exploring how sound and layers of meaning work together to create depth and mystery in poetry.
Get TicketsShared Reading with Open Book
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Fancy digging deeper into the amazing talent taking part in this year’s festival? Join Jess and Lizzie from Open Book for a gentle session of shared reading and discussion of poems by a selection of poets featured. Expect to go away with new favourites! No homework or experience is required.
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