Karen McCarthy Woolf

Learn how to write poems that combine the personal with the political.

Through exercises and examples, this workshop with Karen McCarthy Woolf aims to show you how to draw on both personal and collective experiences in your poetry. Understand how to write about the historical events that shape us in order to have the greatest impact on the reader.

The workshop is inspired by Carolyn Forché's anthologies Against Forgetting and Poetry of Witness (co-edited with Duncan Wu).

For ages 18+. Held at Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall