Vanishing Point: Personae and Perspective
Break out of the first person and create dynamic poems from new perspectives in this workshop led by Emily Critchley.
In this seminar participants will look at a brief history of poetry in which the first person perspective, often assumed to be poetry’s default, is exchanged creatively for something different. From the Sixth Century mythological Irish poet Amergin through Victorian dramatic monologues to contemporaries such as Denise Riley, attendees will explore what can happen when you write from different gender / subject / object positions, asking whether there are bounds to what can be thought through in poetry whilst also considering some of the ethical or political questions that result when individuals position the ‘I’ as ‘other’.