✍️ WORKSHOP: Writing Back From Trauma: A Generative Poetry Workshop w/ Anthony Anaxagorou
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
Much of today’s poetry focuses on a speaker working to untangle a traumatic event. How can we work with difficult lyric subjects and elevate them on the page?
Join us for a 90-minute workshop with poet Anthony Anaxagorou as we explore how we can lift the poem out of the traumatic, the upsetting, and into not necessarily hope but complication.
In this workshop, we’ll explore:
Working with difficult lyric subjects like loss, divorce, prejudice, death, mental health
Tools to problematise these lyric events and offer the reader a deeper or more complex perspective
About Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second collection After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year. In 2020 he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction along with the wider publishing industry. He was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. In 2019 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton. Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. His latest book of poetry, Heritage Aesthetics, is published by Granta. Anthony has recently launched Out-Spoken Academy, a six-week long intensive poetry course. Applications for Term 1 are open until 31 March.
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