Exploring Place and Space in Poetry
This course has unfortunately been cancelled. Ticketholders will be contacted by the box office.
The poem is a house! a city! an airport! a playground!
We will spend time exploring constructions of space in poetry - boundaries and thresholds, attics and trapdoors - and writing a range of spatial geographies.
Who is this course for?
Anyone interested in creative poetry writing and liberated futures. No previous experience with poetry is necessary.
What can I expect?
This will be a 3 hour in-person workshop with breaks throughout. The workshop will be taught through a series of readings, discussion and writing exercises. We will be doing a lot of writing together, and there will be opportunities to share work! There will be audio and video clips shared in the session.
You will need something to write with (pen and paper, or a laptop).
Need to Know
You will learn
- About the ways spatial geography can help contour a poem, invite movements and turns, and orient otherwise disparate thoughts in relation to one another.
- How to incorporate place and space into your own work, and invite these new dimensions.
Meet the Tutor
Sarah Lasoye
Sarah Lasoye is a poet, prison abolitionist and health justice campaigner from London. She is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets (15/16) and Apples and Snakes ‘The Writing Room’ (18/19). She is currently one of six poets selected for the Apples and Snakes Poetry in Performance 2021-22 programme supported by the Jerwood Arts Development Programme Fund, and a member of Octavia poetry collective for women of colour.
Sarah has facilitated poetry workshops for the Barbican, and performed at venues across the UK including the Tate Modern, Southbank Centre, and Latitude Festival. Her work has been featured in Porridge Magazine, Bath Magg, The New Statesman & Poetry London, commissioned by St. Paul’s Cathedral, and featured on BBC Radio 4. Her debut chapbook, Fovea / Ages Ago, was published by Hajar Press in April 2021.
Dates and Times
Exploring Place and Space in Poetry
, 4:38 - 7:38
