This course, led by Patience Agbabi and Jonathan Edwards, will engage with the idea of poetry as play, exploring the joy of messing about with the shape and noise of language, and the seriously great directions this method can lead a poem. 

Workshops will explore a range of approaches, from the monologue to traditional forms, from the surreal to the love poem. Participants will draw inspiration from classical myth and from popular culture to create poems that vibrate on and off the page. Individual tutorials will be tailored closely to each participants’ needs, to ensure that whatever their experience, this is a week which will help them love and tame those pesky beasts which words are.