✅ Online Event
✅ BSL Interpreted
✅ Zoom’s auto-transcription technology will be available

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Date: Monday 28th April 2025
Venue: ONLINE - Zoom Webinar
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Tickets: £8 (£5 concessions, £10 solidarity)

Fitting Our Poetry Into Corsets: Writing in Forms
An online webinar workshop led by Malika Booker.

As poets we often sit at the desk to write poems, feeling the pressure to create that finished draft. Yet the desk can be a place for experiment, play and practice.

The first part of this guided webinar workshop will explore different exercises and strategies you can use to develop your craft. The second part will explore forms, including new forms (like the Golden Shovel and the duplex) and traditional forms (like the ghazal) to experience the freedom and possibility that constriction can enable.

Join Malika Booker for this quick fire guide through writing techniques and forms. Come prepared to write and have fun, as we loosen and tighten our poetic corset strings.

This is a Zoom Webinar workshop. Participants will be guided through talks and writing exercises, and be able to interact with the facilitator through the chat box.

Malika Booker:

Malika Booker (RSFL), Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer, co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Her pamphlet Breadfruit, received a Poetry Society recommendation and her collection Pepper Seed was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize. Awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry. She is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023)


Part of Lyra – Bristol Poetry Festival 2025
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