What Clickbait Can Teach Us about Poetry
Grabbing your readers’ attention and holding on to it.
Journalists have a difficult job: make the complex and dull universally interesting. Poets face a similar challenge: how do we make the reader care about the things we care about – and how can we make them invested in the specifics of a different life?
In this workshop, we will look at techniques used by journalists to grab and keep their readers’ attention and explore how they appear in the work of poets like Diane Seuss, Natalie Shapero, and more. Through a combination of discussion, analysis, and writing exercises, we will apply these concepts to our poems to change how they interact with readers and write from the detail. It is a low-pressure, generative workshop with a focus on trying new things.
One off In-person Session on Saturday 4 May, 2pm–4.30pm (BST). This course will take place at Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA.
Concessions & Accessibility
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About Yanita Georgieva 
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Yanita Georgieva is a poet and journalist. She was born in Bulgaria, raised in Lebanon, and currently lives in England. In 2022, she received the Out-Spoken Prize for Page Poetry and was shortlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize. She is a London Library Emerging Writer and an alum of the Southbank New Poets Collective. Her debut pamphlet, Small Undetectable Thefts, is out now with Broken Sleep. You can find her work in The London Magazine, bath magg, Poetry Wales, and more. www.yanitageorgieva.com
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