Our focus on this course will be encounters with innovative contemporary poems and inventive approaches to form, all as inspiration for your own writing; along the way we’ll read exciting work from writers including Baudelaire, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Victoria Chang, Anne Carson, Luke Kennard, and Jericho Brown.

This is a course for adventurous poets who delight in learning the rules so they can then push them to their limits, and beyond; throughout the term we’ll create an unconventional and playful space, devoted to experimentation and invention, coupled with generous and developmental feedback on your own work. 

Shazea Quraishi is a Pakistani-born Canadian poet and translator based in London. Her poems have appeared in UK and US publications including The Guardian, Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation & The Hudson Review, and anthologised in Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, Mapping the Future: the Complete Works Poets, and The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, among others. Her books include The Glimmer (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), The Taxidermist (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) and The Courtesans Reply (flipped eye publishing, 2012).

Dates: 24 September - 17 December 2024
Location: Online
Cost: £210

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