Betwixt and Between: Poetries of Migration with Lesley Harrison
Mon, 23 Jun
|Online Workshop
How do we make ourselves 'at home'? This 90-minute workshop explores the tenuous nature of belonging in poetries of place.
Time & Location
23 Jun 2025, 19:30 – 21:00 BST
Online Workshop
About the event
Water is an ambiguous space. Aboard the boat, far out of sight of land, we are abruptly cut off from our old world. From the ancient immrama to the plight of today’s refugees, the sea voyage, dangerous and often dreadful, and with a high risk of failure. It is also a period of great physical and metaphysical insecurity, wholly “betwixt and between” (Lynda Mannik, Migration by Boat). How can we word this sense of dislocation?
In this session we will read a selection of poems of migration and arrival, and discuss strategies we might use in our own work to plant our flag, if only for the time being.
This workshop is for you if
• you are new to writing poetry, or you are already writing but would like to rethink some old habits
• you are interested in the relationship between place and creative practice
Tickets
General Admission
£35.00Concession
If you can’t afford the full course or workshop/webinar fee, just pay the concessionary rate. If you can afford the full fee, please pay it, as it will allow us to offer completely free places in the future.
£25.00
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