Revitalise Your Writing: Poetry Workshop with Daljit Nagra
Date:
07/07/2012
Times:
10am - 4pm
Prices:
£50 / £40 conc
Location:
Writers' Centre Norwich
Book your place on this poetry workshop led by 2007 Forward Prize winner and this year’s Escalator Literature judge, Daljit Nagra.
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Description
"Daljit Nagra's vivid tales of immigrant life and love are electrifying the World of poetry."
Rachel Cooke, The Observer
Would you like to give your poetry some extra zip?
How about working on your poem alongside a 2011 TS Eliot shortlisted poet?
Book your place on this poetry workshop led by 2007 Forward Prize winner and this year’s Escalator Literature judge, Daljit Nagra.
About the Workshop
Daljit will help reinvigorate your poetry and poetic voice. You’ll look at contemporary examples of rich, dynamic poetry and ways of playing with form and imagination to create lively poems.
As well as tackling writing exercises set by Daljit, you’ll be encouraged to bring along your own work to see how it can be made livelier.
About the Tutor
In 2003 Daljit Nagra won the Smith/Doorstop pamphlet competition with
Oh my Rub!, under the pseudonym Khan Singh Kumar, the pamphlet going on to become a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and chosen as one of The Guardian's Poetry Books of the Year. His first collection
Look We Have Coming to Dover!, published in 2007, won the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and the 2008 Arts Council England Decibel Award.
Daljit Nagra's second collection, Tipoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!!, its title inspired by an 18th-century automaton, was published in 2011.
Book today to create energy and passion in your poetry!
About the Venue
This workshop will take place in the workshop room situated on the ground floor of the Writers’ Centre Norwich office, on 14 Princes Street.
The room provides an ideal environment for creative thinking and learning with plenty of space and natural light.
14 Princes Street is fully accessible. Please let us know if you have any access or other special requirements.
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