‘The most beautiful videos come from reading poetry. And they’re in your head.’ - Ruth Stone
Poetry has an unlimited special effects budget, its cinematography department is out of this world, and it isn’t afraid to casually bend the laws of time and space. In this workshop, we’ll be writing poems to deliberately and delightfully boggle our own minds.
This workshop will be BSL interpreted and live captioned.
CAROLINE BIRD:
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her sixth collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. As a playwright, Bird has been shortlisted for the George Devine Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in May 2022.