Poetry and Resurrection

How do we revisit our published and unpublished work in order to make something new from it? Is this 're-visiting' a valuable way to deepen our practice, to look at our creative preoccupations in new ways and from different perspectives? Do we only ever write one poem using different words? Can this make us feel stuck, and how do we liberate ourselves to go back, re-tread old ground and dig up new poetry bones? Participants will be given creative prompts and plenty of quiet, relaxed time to write. Open to new and experienced writers.

Workshop dates (please note this is a two-part workshop)

Sunday 10th Feb: 4.30-6pm

Sunday 17th Feb: 4.30-6pm

About the tutor: Jenny Mitchell won the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2023 for a single poem, and the Poetry Book Awards 2021 for her second collection, Map of a Plantation, which is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University. The prize-winning debut collection, Her Lost Language, is One of 44 Poetry Books for 2019 (Poetry Wales), and her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on the USpodcast Poetry Unbound. She’s won numerous competitions, is widely-published, hasperformed at the Houses of Parliament and has just been made Poet-in-Residence at Sussex University.