Health and Wellbeing
24/7: Poetry and the Everyday, led by Maria Sledmere
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- Tickets
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£13.44 (£12 ticket price with a £1.44 booking fee)
- Dates and times
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Thursday 25th May 2023
11:30AM
- Age
- Adult
- Venue
From lunch
poems to one-day epics, dailiness has long been a vital source of poetic
inspiration. In this workshop, we will explore how writers trace rhythms,
encounters and units of daily time in their writing. What forms of ‘extreme
attention’ (CAConrad) can poetry practice, and to what effect? How might
writing help us look for the strange, fruitful or otherwise obscured moments of
quotidian existence? Looking at a range of contemporary poetry, we will engage
with found materials, uses of journaling, the arts of noticing, lists and
lyrics, while doing some writing experiments of our own. Open to all levels of
writing experience.
Maria
Sledmere has authored over twenty books of poetry, including the recent Cocoa
and Nothing with Colin Herd (2023) and The Luna Erratum
(2021), which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s Scottish Poetry
Book of the Year 2022. She is editor-in-chief of SPAM Press and a Lecturer in
Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.
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