Do you have a favourite book you want to make the subject of a poem? This workshop will explore poems that are in dialogue with literature, and how poets bring in their favourite authors. From the classics to the contemporary, we'll look at how poets explore their relationship with the novel and their authors. Homage, dialogue or exploration, we'll see how prose becomes the subject of poetry and discuss the significance of particular novels for you. We'll use poems as prompts, poems that look at Woolf, Keats, Gide, Tolstoy, Cavafy, to see how poets and those closest to them have engaged with their literary heroes through poems.
Please have a think in advance about the books and novels that have been important to you or to those around you, perhaps the characters in the novels you related to or reacted to, or your relationship with the novelists themselves.
📅Date and time: Saturday 21 February 11:00 to 13:00
📍Venue: Pianofabriek, Rue du Fort 35, 1060 Saint-Gilles
💰Price: €25 Eur (non-member) €20 Eur (Member).
Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson’s first collection 'Hard Drive' was published by Carcanet in 2023. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Polari Book Prize. He has three pamphlets: 'Those People' (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), 'The Days that Followed Paris' (HappenStance, 2016), written after the Paris terrorist attacks, and 'Selfie with Waterlilies' (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He has an MA in Creative Writing with Pedagogy (Poetry) from the Manchester Writing School. He co-edited the ‘Europe’ of Magma, and has just finished the ‘ownership’ issue out in July. He helps programme the Poetry in Aldeburgh festival. He is from Cambridge and lives in Brussels.
