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"Esteemed poet Joelle Taylor leads an online exploration of T. S. Elliot's apocalyptic classic. You'll find 'The Waste Land' re-examined and recontextualised for these times via writing exercises and deep textural analysis."
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A event on Saturday 9th April. The event starts at 12:30.
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12:30pm - 14:00 (BST). £7.50
On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, join the recent T. S. Eliot Prize winner Joelle Taylor for an exclusive workshop responding to the themes of this classic poem, including textual analysis and writing exercises. Participants will consider the relevance of the poem in today’s world, and how we too can find ways to write about chaos, desolation and apocalyptic themes whilst still retaining a sense of hope and wonder. (Photo Credit: Roman Manfredi)
This workshop will be a Zoom webinar. Attendees will be able to follow along with the writing exercises and discussions, interacting with the facilitator via the chat box.
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet and author who prior to the pandemic completed a world tour with her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. C+nto + Othered Poems is the winner of the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry 2021. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 4 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut collection of inter-connecting short stories The Night Alphabet. Her new poetry collection C+NTO & Othered Poems was published in June 2021 and is the subject of the Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. C+nto was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize 2021, been named by The Telegraph, the New Statesman, The White Review's Times Literary Supplement as one of the best poetry books of 2021, as well as DIVA magazine’s Book of the Month, and awarded 5 stars by the Morning Star. She has received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, the UK’s premier poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre. She is the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
12:30pm - 14:00 (BST). £7.50
On the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, join the recent T. S. Eliot Prize winner Joelle Taylor for an exclusive workshop responding to the themes of this classic poem, including textual analysis and writing exercises. Participants will consider the relevance of the poem in today’s world, and how we too can find ways to write about chaos, desolation and apocalyptic themes whilst still retaining a sense of hope and wonder. (Photo Credit: Roman Manfredi)
This workshop will be a Zoom webinar. Attendees will be able to follow along with the writing exercises and discussions, interacting with the facilitator via the chat box.
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet and author who prior to the pandemic completed a world tour with her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. C+nto + Othered Poems is the winner of the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry 2021. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 4 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut collection of inter-connecting short stories The Night Alphabet. Her new poetry collection C+NTO & Othered Poems was published in June 2021 and is the subject of the Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. C+nto was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize 2021, been named by The Telegraph, the New Statesman, The White Review's Times Literary Supplement as one of the best poetry books of 2021, as well as DIVA magazine’s Book of the Month, and awarded 5 stars by the Morning Star. She has received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, the UK’s premier poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre. She is the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
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