To achieve clarity and speak to the times we are living in, it helps to be grounded in the present moment and our lived experience.
‘Poetry is an act of attention. It asks us to look again and more
closely at things in the world. It wants to be beautiful as
language, as performance, but it wants to do something
in the world’
– Kimberly Blaeser (Ojibwe)
Join us in a supportive and nourishing space, as we take action by paying attention — reading and writing in response to what is going on around us, close by and far away. There is much to cherish, and much to strive to change, and poetry is uniquely placed to reflect and shed light on the situation we find ourselves in.
This workshop is open to new and experienced writers of poetry, and anyone who is curious about writing as expression and discovery.
Sessions last two and a half hours with a break.
Please bring something to write on.
£35
About Shazea Quraishi
Shazea is a Pakistani-born Canadian poet, translator and educator based in Brixton. She has taught for over 20 years, with organisations including the Poetry School, Arvon, The Poetry Society, Translators in Schools, English PEN, Exiled Writers and more. She has designed and delivered poetry courses at undergraduate level and led poetry workshops in adult education, prisons, refugee centres, festivals, theatres and museums.
Her poems have appeared in UK and US publications including The Guardian, The Financial Times, Poetry Review and others. Books include: The Glimmer (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), The Taxidermist (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe Books, 2015) and The Courtesans Reply (flipped eye publishing, 2012).