A chance to explore poems on the pleasures and pains of exertion, our physical limits and the attraction of risk; we will consider emotional reactions triggered by bodily effort, and what happens when physical odds must be overcome. When Vona Groarke jumps from a pier, we watch her ‘toss every bone and sinew to the plunge’ and I want to join her.

Come and write new poems full of energy, movement and locomotion.

Rebecca Goss’s second collection Her Birth (Carcanet, 2013), was shortlisted for The 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 and The Portico Prize for Literature 2015. In 2014 Rebecca was selected for The Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets.