Georgia's Poetry Workshop

I discuss how we might use single stanza poems and go on a tangent about how city environments are created to threaten us with violence.

References: 'Farther' in Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers / 'Checkou…

I discuss constraints and how to use them. As always, there are writing prompts and poetry readings!

References: Oulipo / Aubrey Beardsley / 'Pepys' from The Kids by Hannah Lowe / 'Train Triolet (16:4…

I discuss how we might approach writing poetry about transformations.

References: 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson / Touchstone - coined by Matthew Arnold / 'Man …

Today I discuss ekphrasis - how might we write about artworks?

References: 'The Shield of Achilles' - W.H. Auden / 'Colour Photographs of Tsarist Russia' from On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey / 'Portrai…

A workshop with poems and prompts about the otherworldly.

References: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' - John Keats / John Keats and ‘negative capability’ - Essay on the British Library website / 'Waking' f…

I discuss how we can use nonsense poetry to write for fun and gravitas.

References: 'Antigonish (I met a man who wasn't there)' by Hughes Mearns / 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll / 'On the Ning Nang No…

I discuss how the way we move impacts the way we write.

References: 'Augmentation' from The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort / 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and…

A short and sweet one today. I talk about how we might approach writing difficult emotions.

References: 'My Dead Father’s General Store in the Middle of a Desert' by Lee Stockdale (National Poetry Com…

A chilled workshop with lots of poems about the moon, a poem of my own, and a nocturnal prompt.

References: The Ink Dark Moon by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (translated by Jane Hirshfield) / 'The…

I discuss spring, trees, and Japanese culture and poetry, and set you a blossomy writing prompt.

References: 'Simon Armitage savours spring ‘ecstasy and melancholy’ on World Poetry Day' - article by T…

I discuss the Gurlesque and poems about the body. Plus embarrassing times I have hurt my back.

References: "Tiger D" by Chelsea Minnis and "2 Sections from "Imitating"" by Catherine Wagner - from Gurl…

I discuss the importance of the list when it comes to writing poetry.

References: 'Eat Me' - Patience Agbabi, Bloodshot Monochrome / 'On Lists' - Simon Armitage, A Vertical Art / W.N. Herbert, Writing…

On this first ever episode, I talk through how to develop your writing habits and offer a technique to alleviate writing fear.

References: David Graeber - Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology / Chri…