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Workshop

Political poetry

Due to popular demand we will be running this course for a fifth time in the Spring. Do get in touch if you'd like to book a place or find out more.

Each week you receive a tutorial via email (illustrated with videos and audio recordings). There are writing prompts and exercises to inspire work, an online chat group for discussion, and written feedback from the Live canon team.

Topics covered include:

  • What is political poetry?
  • Politics and form
  • Protest poetry
  • Discourse, rhetoric and vocabulary
  • Poet as witness
  • Writing Back
  • Satire
  • Public Poetry
  • Old Stories, New Contexts
  • Rebels and Rule breakers
Dates and times
various times | Wed 18 Apr 2018
Where
Online Correspondence Course
Pricing
£75 – £150