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Celebrate present-day Russia through its poetry, and create your own new translations and trans-readings

Have you ever wanted to completely experiment with design of poem? Manipulate a piece of text to make something once drab, now visually stunning and fantastical? Or give serious thought to how form might best reflect content?

This Open Workshop with Lavinia Singer, the Poetry School’s Digital Poet in Residence, is all about appearances. Choosing one of three suggested poems, you will have complete freedom to present it in any way you see fit. Think about your choice of materials, layout, typography, colours, collage elements, images or illustrations – whatever you’d like to bring the text alive. We will then share our work and compare processes, where you will have a chance to outline your choices and consider how successful they were.

Unlock the potential of your surroundings with creative mis-perception

Is your version of the sea Derek Walcott’s ‘grey vault’ of history or are its ‘edges overgrown with lace’ as Ivan V Lalic would have it? The seascape has long been a favourite with poets, yet our relationship with it has never been entirely comfortable: it threatens to rise, swallows planes whole, and a large portion of its depths remains unchartered and unknown. In this course, we will look at the different ways in which the sea can inspire, intrude and disrupt your writing practice. From creatures of the deep to submerged forests, from coast-cultures to the sea as a foreign planet, you will encounter a variety of texts that will encourage you to create work that engages with the sea’s multiple facets. (This is a repeat of a course that has run previously).

Create true and original art out of that which was unspoken, formless and void

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“I don’t believe in writing every day, though I’m at my desk every day’ – Stanley Kunitz

Where do you write? Send us a photo!

This group was created in conjunction with the essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Kim Moore. Read it here: http://campus.poetryschool.com/a-room-of-ones-own/

Knock those loose poems into shape with some concentrated feedback

First poem submission deadline: 1 Feb (feedback posted by Will by 8 Feb)
Second poem submission deadline: 15 Feb (feedback posted by Will by 22 Feb)
Third poem submission deadline: 1 March (feedback posted by Will by 8 March)
Fourth poem submission deadline: 15 March (feedback posted by Will by 22 March)
Fifth poem submission deadline: 29 March (feedback posted by Will by 5 April)

Write poems of connection in an age of mass uprooting and movement

Leave no word unturned

Write poems straight from the heart

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Compose poems as small pockets of resistance

To live a normal life, that’s where the poetry is

Become latter day plant collectors and enlarge the meaning of our natural world(s)

Craft poems on the ever-shifting edges of water and land

Fashion epic, neo-medievalist re-tellings from the earliest English poetry

Awaken the mysterious, divine power of rocks, rivers, birds, trees, ourselves

Apply best practice to poetry commissions and residencies

Explore distant planets, future cities, and the furthest reaches of human imagination