Head to the moon with Sean O’Brien and consider which parts of your poems should be jettisoned into the vacuum of space.

A rocket is launched towards the moon; at the beginning of its flight it is massive and cumbersome but, as it travels into space, it sheds parts of itself whose usefulness is now over. Arriving on the moon, the rocket might only be the size of a delivery van.

In a poem there may be several words or passages necessary to getting it off the ground; but how do we recognise the points at which they have become redundant? How do we streamline our poems after take off and prepare them for successful landings?

Join the TS Eliot Award-winning Sean O’Brien for a day of intensive writing, with provocative examples and discussion, guaranteed to help you launch some new poems, jettison their non-essential parts, and guide them to successful dénouements.