Festival Reading Group with Open Book – 4 Nov
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Can’t wait for Push the Boat Out? Get into the festival spirit by joining Marjorie Lotfi, poet and co-founder of Open Book, for an exploration of poetry from a handful of poets appearing at the festival. Expect to go away with new favourites! No homework or experience is required.
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Festival Reading Group with Open Book – 18 Nov
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Can’t wait for Push the Boat Out? Get into the festival spirit by joining Marjorie Lotfi, poet and co-founder of Open Book, for an exploration of poetry from a handful of poets appearing at the festival. Expect to go away with new favourites! No homework or experience is required.
Get TicketsTranslating into Different Places, with Lorna Goodison
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Lorna Goodison’s latest publication is an astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, drawing on the entire continuum of Jamaican speech. Join the former Poet Laureate of Jamaica for this online workshop on translating existing stories into different places and Englishes. We’ll explore the possibilities this opens up and find innovative solutions to the challenges posed.
Get TicketsOnline Double Bill: Between the Historical and the Imaginary
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Avidya and Arundhathi Subramaniam’s The Gallery of Upside Down Women map a world trying to find its axis in a season of change. Join these two poets online as they read from and discuss their luminous latest collections, the forgotten histories they dissect and the new worlds they point towards.
Get TicketsPoetry Lab with Victoria Chang: Come Play!
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Join Forward Prize winner Victoria Chang for an online generative writing lab, reading and writing poems which explore how we find meaning in an increasingly challenging world. Come to this online workshop with a big imagination, an open mind, a laptop and/or a notebook, and be prepared to have fun as we experiment in new ways.
Get TicketsCollective Memory, Documentation, and Resistance with Noor Hindi
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
In this workshop, we’ll be exploring poems from the Palestinian poetry anthology Heaven Looks Like Us, reading poems that explore themes of homeland, grief and joy, and silence and testimony. We’ll discuss how poets transform lived experiences through art that challenges erasure, opening space to imagine new futures. Noor Hindi will guide participants through generative writing prompts to create new work.
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