Fragmentation: Making & Unmaking Poetry
Blow-up to glow-up; use non-traditional means to make magic material.
On this practical day workshop, we’ll explore collage and fragmentation as generative, playful techniques for writing. We will read various kinds of ‘lost’, unmade, and remade poems, from Sappho to Emily Dickinson’s ‘envelope poems’, from The Waste Land to Wanda Coleman, and take in erasure poems, collages, and centos. We’ll take inspiration from these works as we move into making our own fragmentary poems.
This will be a hands-on creative workshop with all materials provided, considering how our words can respond to the words of others, how each poem we write can hold more poems inside it. Poems can be broken and remade again and again.
1 x full day session, running 10.30am–4.30pm (GMT), on 15 Mar 2025. This course will take place at The Bindery, 51 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8HN.
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About Becky Varley-Winter 
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Becky Varley-Winter’s first full-length poetry collection, Dangerous Enough, was published by Salt in 2023. She has also published a poetry pamphlet, Heroines: On the Blue Peninsula (V. Press, 2019), was longlisted in the National Poetry Competition 2019, won the T. R. Henn and Brewer-Hall Prizes, and appeared in Poetry Review, Magma, Rising, Finished Creatures, and Tentacular, amongst others. Her other publications are a book on modernist poetry and literary fragments, Reading Fragments and Fragmentation in Modernist Literature (Sussex Academic Press, 2018), and a collection of short fiction, BLOOM (Broken Sleep Books, 2021).
"I started at the Poetry School as a new writer 20 years ago and have not stopped. It has made a big impact on my life as writing has become an integral part of it. There is always more to learn and share and the Poetry School continues to come up with intriguing new angles and avenues to explore."
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