About this event
What is poetry? This workshop will look at key concepts like rhythm, concision, imagery and sound. We'll consider the effects of techniques in published poems, including some of John's work.
Writing exercises will explore the technique of freewriting and there'll be discussion too around keeping notebooks, recycling images and phrases, assembling your own anthologies to learn from and the different ways in which reading widely in poetry can strengthen your own writing.
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John McCullough lives in Hove. His book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds, was published with Penned in the Margins and won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature as well as being shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.
His most recent collection, Panic Response, was a Book of the Year in The Telegraph and one of The Times’ Notable New Poetry Books of 2022. It includes the long poem ‘Flower of Sulphur’, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
John teaches creative writing at the University of Brighton.
There is an opportunity to share your poetry at the Wordfest Open Mic and Slam on Sunday 6 October 7.30pm
