the87press: A Horse, Not Jumping: On Refusals, poetry workshop with Victoria Adukwei Bulley
What is refusal? What terms of the world might refusal seek to reject, and what does it demand of us as writers and readers?
Spending time with poems from Fady Joudah’s recent collection […] (Out-Spoken Press, 2024) alongside Lola Olufemi’s text 'Notes on Refusal', participants of this workshop will experiment with techniques including acts of (un)naming, (re)definition, blackout and redaction as a means of understanding how refusal works as a poetics on the page, as well as how such writing calls beyond itself towards social action.
*Refusal in horse riding is the failure of a horse to jump a fence to which it is presented. This includes any stop in forward motion.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer, and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber in the UK and in North America by Alfred A. Knopf.
Established in 2018, the87press is an Asian, LGBTQIA+, and neurodiverse led publishing collective and events curator in South London.
Date: Sunday 10 November 2024, 6 - 8pm GMT
Location: Online
Cost: £36.45
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