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Poetry School: Swerve: Surprise, Errancy, & Unexpected Turns with Genevieve Stevens (Online)
Sat 12 Feb 2022 to Sat 5 Mar 2022
All too often we stay in our lanes and forget the elements of surprise and errancy in our writing. The objective of this split-session workshop is to encourage dangerous driving – you will be encouraged to sidestep the familiar and safe, pushing your work into strange, charged, and on-the-brink places.
The first session will single out examples of poetic swerve from Richard Hugo, Weldon Kees, Karen Solie, James Wrights, Wallace Stevens, and more. We will then discuss what it is these risk-takers achieve – how are they balancing radical uncertainty and disciplined judgement? How are they playing with readers’ expectations and does it always work? We will locate and apply their techniques to our own work through various writing exercises.
In the weeks between sessions, you will submit a ‘swerve’ poem(s) to the class so that the second session can be spent giving considered feedback on everyone’s work. We will end with a discussion on how to keep alive our maverick sensibilities and recap on go-to exercises to rejuvenate our practice when things get all too safe and familiar.
Genevieve Stevens is a Ph.D student at Royal Holloway University where she teaches Creative Writing. Recent work has appeared in Poetry London, The Moth, PN Review, New Statesman and TLS. Alongside academic teaching, Genevieve runs several poetry workshops and lives in East Sussex with her husband and two children.
Dates: 12 February and 5 March 2022, from 10.30am–1pm GMT
Location: Online
Cost: £84
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Additional Information:
Location:
Online
Region(s):
UK
Price:
£84
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