Through the Cracks: Summit Festival 2024 Workshop with Caroline Bird
Explore Surrealism and push your writing into strange new places for this strange new world.
Join us for an intimate workshop on writing Surrealism with Caroline Bird, as part of the inaugural Summit Festival of ecopoetry, nature, and climate writing.
Sometimes it’s hard to write surrealism when the world keeps writing it for us. How can we be playful when the stakes are so high? How can we generate ideas in a landscape of crisis? Caroline Bird will approach the task of writing a burning world with wonder, weirdness, gallows humour and, if we’re lucky, a little bit of hope. This session is centred on continuing to create, cultivating poems that might burst up through the cracks.
1.5-hour workshop, running 10–11.30am (BST) on 20 Oct 2024 in House 10, Alumni Room, Cavendish Road, University of Leeds School of English, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
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About Caroline Bird 
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Caroline Bird’s selected poems, Rookie (2022), and The Air Year (2020) are two of Carcanet’s most popular books of the decade. She won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2020, and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Book Awards, the Ted Hughes Award, the Polari Prize, and the Dylan Thomas Prize. She won a Cholmondeley Award in 2023. Her latest collection, Ambush at Still Lake, was published in July 2024.
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