Learning from Dead [Women] Poets: Poetry Workshop with Clare Pollard

Just before our upcoming Dead [Women] Poets Séance at The London Library, come along to be inspired by the female poets who have written before you. Join the poetic conversation – and think about how to steal, allude, translate, remix, modernise and speak to the dead.

Clare Pollard, poet and author of Lives of the Female Poets, will run this warm, friendly poetry workshop with lots of exercises, ideas and prompts, and a particular focus on the spirits we’ll be conjuring later that evening at our 'séance': Amy Levy and Christina Rossetti.

Clare Pollard’s sixth collection of poetry with Bloodaxe is Lives of the Female Poets. Her poem ‘Pollen’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. She translated Ovid’s Heroines for Bloodaxe, which she toured as a one-woman show. Her play The Weather was performed at the Royal Court Theatre, she wrote the non-fiction title Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children’s Picture Books, her adult novels are Delphi and The Modern…