Risks and Reboots: Poetry Workshop with John McCullough

How far do you stretch yourself as a poet? What sort of artistic risks might you be able to take? This workshop will encourage you to engage in thematic and formal departures, asking participants to begin poems from a range of surprising angles. We'll discuss areas like reading and writing outside your comfort zone, experimenting with lines and stanzas, radical editing and techniques concerning composition and research that will help you to steer your writing into new territory. This event is aimed at those aged 18+ with some previous experience of writing poetry.

John McCullough lives in Hove. His third book, Reckless Paper Birds, won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. His previous collections have been Books of the Year for The Guardian and The Independent. His poem ‘Flower of Sulphur’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. His fourth collection, Panic Response, was published in March 2022.