Price: £7.50 / £5
Time: 12:00 - 13:45

Boundaries and limitations can be seen as constricting, but can also provide us with a sense of freedom. The short poem can offer a point of focus for approaching the essential, or allow us to construct a larger movement in discrete, contained steps. Moving through the affordances of haiku, tanka and American sentences, we'll look at possibilities for short poems, and consider how to devise our own constraints and short forms. An invitation to establish a playful practice, a gateway to working with forms and formal constraints (if you've ever found the idea of form challenging), or an invitation to see what's possible beyond the longer poems you may be more used to.

JACOB SAM-LA ROSE:

Jacob Sam-La Rose is a poetry editor for flipped eye publishing and leads the Barbican Young Poets programme. He has served as poet-in-residence for Raffles Institution (Singapore), poetry professor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and artistic director for the Spoken Word Education Programme (Goldsmiths University). His poetry has been translated into Portuguese, Latvian, French and Dutch. His collection 'Breaking Silence' is required reading for the OCR English Language/Literature A-level syllabus, and was shortlisted for a Fenton Aldeburgh award and a Forward Poetry prize. (Photo credit: Sam Burnett)

Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2023.

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