Poetry Fundamentals - A Seven-Week Course Taught by the North Sea Poets

Beginning in Poetry is a series of seven classes, delivered weekly by members of the NSP Collective. Classes will run between 90 minutes and two hours long, and students will have an opportunity to directly interact with the tutor through a brief Q&A at the end of the session. 

This workshop series is suitable for both experienced and emerging writers.

Week 6: 27th May 2025 7:30-9:30pm

Lesley Harrison: Writing Home​​​

Drawing on work from several contemporary poets, this session will examine ways in which we map ourselves onto a landscape.  Is 'home' always that place we define and complete?  Is this inevitable?  In this session Lesley will discuss the process of writing from here, wherever ‘here’ is, and how we might question the whole notion of a ‘firm footing’. Are there ‘homes’ and ‘heres’ into which we might also project our imaginations and alternative futures? (‘Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later,…