Have you ever wanted to collaborate with a group of poets on one piece of work?
Well, the Surrealists started the Exquisite Corpse enterprise for this very purpose, as a sort of party game or parlour trick, a kinetic placement of ideas and images. So let’s create our monster: no rules, no theme, no demands, except that all contributions are concealed until the body of work is complete, then we will step back to wait for the lightning.
In this Open Workshop with Janette Ayachi, the Poetry School’s Digital Poet in Residence, you will be posting lines and conjoining them together to generate a poem charged from the CAMPUS ether. You will look at how the process began as a visual art form, and you will learn how wonderful it can be to be detached from subject, writing for the sake of writing, automatically and without purpose other than to assist a bigger picture – lines will become limbs and poets will become the donors. The finished body may end up being absurd; but the variability at play, the unforeseen elements and group participation will gloriously disrupt the conscious mind’s affinity for procedure, and possibly invite change to the way you frequently structure your poems.
To sign up and for more information: http://campus.poetryschool.com/open-workshop-exquisite-corpse/