Poetry Workshop- Poetry as Fixation - SUNDAY

What keeps circling back in your mind? From people and places to objects, ideas, fears and fixations, well explore how obsession and fixation can fuel a poem. Bring your current or long-standing preoccupation to the session and learn how repetition, accumulation and return can transform what we cant stop thinking about into something unexpected.

Rough schedule

5:00-5:15pm: welcome, time to grab a drink

5:15-6:00pm: warm-up exercise & discussion

6:00-6:45pm: reading, discussing, writing

6:45-7:00pm: break

7:00-7:30pm: reading, discussing, writing

7:30-8:00pm: sharing, workshopping, editing

Ruth is a London-based poet & tutor originally from the West Midlands. She believes everyone can write poetry & is passionate about making the community more inclusive & accessible. Ruths first pamphlet The Thought Sits With Me was published by Nine Pens in 2022. She edited Morocco Bounds first anthology of poetry, Slow Progress in 2024. She has placed & been shortlisted for several prizes in the last few years, including the Passionfruit, New Poets, Plough and Prole Prizes.