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5 Approaches to Writing with the More-than-Human

What happens when we combine human language with fungal, plant, insect, bird, and animal methods of communication? Camilla Nelson who will be teaching her Online course, BECOMING: Transreading Interspecies Empathy & Innovative Poetics, with us this Autumn, gives us some approaches for writing poetry from a non-human perspective. FUNGUS Read letters as spores. Choose a poem…

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Writing in Lent and Ramadan

Our tutor Fawzia Kane discusses the poetic queries surrounding writing in Lent and Ramadan, as well as her upcoming course which delves into inner reflection and deep contemplation through poetry. Both Lent and Ramadan involve periods of fasting and reflection. How do you think restrictions like these affect the way we pay attention to language…

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Excavation Poetics: Writing Through Language as Ruin

As part of our Poetry Craft series, Giulia Ottavia Frattini discusses the practise of excavation poetics and how to write through language as ruin. Your course talks about poetry beginning where language fractures. How can a poet start writing from gaps, silences, or fragments? Poems often embody the fleeting with such a resonant attunement that…

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