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Workshop

The Spell of the Sensuous

A poetry workshop that focuses on using the senses to convey experiences. Use your senses to bring poems alive.

This workshop explores how poets such as Mark Doty, Kim Addonizio, Carol Ann Duffy catch the sensuous nature of the world, and will lead participants to employ their senses to capture a felt experience through a series of writing exercises.

 
Mark Doty has said, “try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes, and it immediately becomes clear that all we see is slippery, nuanced, elusive.” As Susan Mitchell says, “The world is wily, and doesn’t want to be caught.”
Dates and times
10:30 am | Sat 1 Dec 2018
Where
The Poetry School
1 Dock Offices
Canada Water
Surrey Quays Road
SE16 2XU
London
Pricing
£72 | 60+: £68 | concessions: £58